Re: Restore backup to KVM
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:58:42AM +0200, solitone wrote:
> On 22/09/17 21:38, Reco wrote:
> >2) Your backup is made by rsync(1) or tar(1).
> >
> >Make yourself a file representing virtual machine disk.
> >Apply parted/fdisk/whatever to make appropriate number of partitions
> >inside it. Create filesystems.
> >Mount these somewhere, invoke rsync(1)/tar(1) as needed.
>
> Ok, I've done all these steps.
>
> >Fix extended file attributes, capability labels, SELinux labels if any
> >etc. By hand, that is.
Note that rsync can be told to preserve extended file attributes (option
- -X). Whether that succeeds will depend, of course, on whether the target
file system can digest that.
Likewise, tar has an --xattrs option.
Capabilities and SELinux labels seem to be implemented on top of
xattrs (Disclaimer: I barely know what I'm talking about, but I
Looked It Up On The Internet(TM)). So all seems well here.
"By hand" sounds a bit sadomasochistic. I'd use -X resp. --xattrs
and sift carefully through warnings and errors. Plus perhaps check
one file or three to catch some systematic error.
Cheeers
- -- tomás
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