Hi,
Tim restored from a Duplicity backup and found extended attributes were
missing, causing SE Linux issues.
xattr(7) explains extended attributes; additional bits of data which can
accompany a file.
wget(1) has --xattr:
$ wget -q --xattr https://google.com/robots.txt
$ getfattr -d robots.txt
# file: robots.txt
user.xdg.origin.url="https://www.google.com/robots.txt";
user.xdg.referrer.url="https://google.com";
$
More background on them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes
SE Linux uses extended attributes whereas AppArmor sticks with ordinary
files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SE_Linux#Comparison_with_AppArmor
Duplicity doesn't backup Access Control Lists or extended attributes.
Bug reported created 2010:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/558385
rsync(1) does copy them with -X, and ACLs with -A, both in my normal
invocation of -PacivHAXxS. :-)
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