On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 16:03 -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> > wrote: > it frustrating that even there there isn't as much as I think there > should be. There seems to be little coordination between developers > of filesystems and of backup software. I am never sure if I can > backup and restore the more advanced semantics of modern filesystems. > As a result, my tendency > is to stick to the 1980s POSIX model. Admittedly my recent > experience is 100% Linux, are things any better in the *BSD or > Solaris world? i.e. Do filesystem developers "bless" backup > software as > being
GNU tar has supported POSIX ACLs [--acls], extended attributes [- -xattrs], and SELINUX contexts [--selinux] for quite awhile. I've tested it - it works; nothing beats just testing. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
