The GNU tar in RHEL 5 seems to have been patched to allow backing up
ACLs and XATTRs.

Has anyone actually tried using this new feature in GNU tar and
been successful in restoring the ACLs/XATTRs?


Also Sprach Albrecht Dreß:

Am 28.07.08 15:08 schrieb(en) Nickolas Gray:

New to list, looking for a good solution to backing up SELinux systems with MLS policues

The reference in the Amanda documentation regarding SELinux xattrs is a rather cryptic one-liner

The problem is that amanda relies upon GNU tar which is not able to back up extended attributes, including ACL's as well as SELinux ones.

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