I use rsync for most of my backups.  For a restore I can rsync the files back 
and touch /.autorelabel to restore the SE Linux labels.  That combination gets 
all setuid files etc, but doesn't get file capabilities.

Below is an example.  Is there a good way of preserving capabilities apart 
from running "getcap /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*" and storing the 
output?  Currently /bin/ping seems to be the only commonly used program using 
filesystem capability flags.  Also is there a way of telling Debian to restore 
capabilities apart from "apt-get --reinstall install iputils-ping"?

root@sevm:~# cp -a /bin/ping .
root@sevm:~# rsync -va /bin/ping ping2
sending incremental file list
ping

sent 61,328 bytes  received 35 bytes  122,726.00 bytes/sec
total size is 61,240  speedup is 1.00
root@sevm:~# getcap ping ping2
ping = cap_net_raw+ep
root@sevm:~#

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