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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:04:18 -0500
From:      David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kpneal@pobox.com
Subject:   Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies
Message-ID:  <442EA027-6D73-4D85-AD73-1E29DC836EF6@ee.ryerson.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1303011538560.2804@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <20130301165040.GA26251@anubis.morrow.me.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1303011209321.2046@sea.ntplx.net> <20130301192949.GB79829@neutralgood.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1303011538560.2804@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Mar 1, 2013, at 15:39, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
>=20
>> What about extended attributes? ACLs? Are those saved by tar?
>=20
> I think tar (as root or -p) will attempt to preserve those.

Specifically bsdtar (with libarchive) and star:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarPosix1eACLs
http://www.freshports.org/archivers/star/

GNUtar is a bit tricky: older versions don't handle ACLs at all so you =
have to check version numbers on your creation and extraction hosts.




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