On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:45:32AM -0700, Gary Kopp wrote:
> Searching has so far only turned up one old post in another mailing list
> suggested Bacula needed a patch to handle this, so let me ask here.
>
> Will Bacula back up and restore the xattrs (extended attributes) used by
> SELinux? My environment is RHEL4, but SELinux xattrs are common across all
> implementations AFAIK.
No, it doesn't.
If all of your files have the default selinux contexts, the simplest solution
is to simply ensure that on a bare metal recovery you also ensure that
/.autolabel file (IIRC) is created. On FC4 at least this will cause the boot
scripts to troll through / and make the contexts match those defined in the
policy.
Other than that, you could probably hack up a script similar to the one listed
for backing up ACLs. This could take a while on a system with a lot of files,
and you would have to work a way to reapply those contexts on restore manually,
but at least the data would be there.
That said, I don't suppose there happen to be any plans to backup xattrs? I'd
be more than happy to volunteer to test out any code to do so.
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