On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:30:02 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > I'd like to dump an ext3 filesystem which might uses xattrs and might > use file capabilities. I'd very much like to pipe its output to another > machine (via netcat or some other means) which frames out fsarchiver [1] > which requires lseeks() on the file it generates. So I'd like to use > something like tar, cpio or pax. > > Unfortunately, it seems that tar did not support any extended file > properties yet [2], [3] even though it seems there are patches around > [5]. Can anyone please suggest a tool which could do *full* archival of > an ext3 filesystem and which supports dumping its output to stdout?
Have you considered "bsdtar/bsdcpio"? They're both packaged for Debian and seem to support acl and extended attributes (at least up to certain level): https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarExtendedAttributes > Please Cc me as I'm not subscribed. Sorry, I can't ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jqqobg$dr8$1...@dough.gmane.org
