Yes. Backing up extended attributes is needed for many environments such
as SE Linux.

There are other advantages such as better performance. See
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html

Paddy

On 3/30/06, Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com> wrote:
> Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
> > Joshua,
> >
> > I understand your concerns. Schily tar support (when implemented) will
> > be one of the supported dump programs and will be configurable for
> > DLE.
> >
> So, if I understand it correctly, star support is primarly because
> AMANDA currently doesn't back up ACLs?
>
> Graeme
>


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