Hi. On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> On 11/14/18, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > >>> If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - there > >>> are rsync, cpio or tar. Or all those ‘backup solutions' based on those. > > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:52:57PM -0500, Lee wrote: > >> Do I need all that metadata? This is for me at home so it's pretty > >> much a single user machine. > > > On Nov 14, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > That's for you to decide. I'd say you definitely need it for the backups > > of / and /var and can *probably* skip it for /home, but YMMV. > > Don’t the options for rsync -aAHX preserve all the metadata? Is there > something besides
Yep, there is at least one thing rsync looses along the way: # chattr +i /bin/ping # rsync -aHAX /bin/ping /tmp # lsattr /bin/ping ----i--------e--- /bin/ping # lsattr /tmp/ping -------------e--- /tmp/ping Reco
