Geoffrey Giesemann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:05:35PM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: >>What is the "official" way of backing up UFS[2] filesystems >>containing extended attributes? >>In former time dump(8) and restore(8) where the tools of choice. >>But do they deal with extended attributes? > > I had a vague recollection pax might've been able to back up extended > attributes, but the specifications at [3] only hint at there being > scope for extended attributes as an 'implementation extension'. > > [3] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html#tag_04_100_13_03 XAR is capable of dealing with extended attributes on several operating systems, including FreeBSD: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/ JasonReceived on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 17:04:42 UTC
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