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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity, OS X custom extended file attributes(met
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Nathaniel Nutter |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity, OS X custom extended file attributes(metadata) |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:40:40 -0700 |
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Saptarshi Guha
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Rdiff-backup does not seem to suffer from this.
>
> Hoping to find a solution.
>
This is pretty well discussed/covered on the website and mail archives
but in short I think the reason is that Duplicity uses archives (tar)
that do not support the metadata. Now OS X has a version of tar that
does support metadata but unfortunately the python API does not (which
is what Duplicity uses to create the archive). Someday Duplicity may
move to a more Mac OS X friendly archive format but that hasn't
happened yet.
Nathan