On Friday 03 July 2009, Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress AT arcor DOT de> wrote:
> Am 03.07.09 17:58 schrieb(en) Alan Hodgson:
> > Does anyone have a working example of using amgtar to backup ACLs
> > and/or selinux attributes?
>
> Apparently Fedora comes with a patched tar which supports xattr's, see
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=200925> and
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472355>.  I believe it is
> possible to compile it manually for your disto.
>

Don't know why I didn't think of that. Using Fedora Core 11's tar works 
well. Thank you!

CentOS's tar does support the xattrs flag but it wasn't working with all the 
options used by Amanda - the Fedora Core version does.

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