Re: [Duplicity-talk] Saving extended attributes

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.01.2017 00:13, Arjun Krishnan via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I know duplicity doesn't explicitly support extended attributes, but are 
> there any recommended hacks for saving them? One way is to tar each file 
> before letting duplicity encrypt and act on it. That is, can duplicity be 
> configured to run
> 
>   tar --xattrs cvf filename.tar filename 
> 
> on each file that it backs up? I suppose I could do this manually before 
> running duplicity. I'm saving a bunch of my stuff to a cloud drive, and 
> wouldn't like to lose extended attributes.
> 

you may use duply w/ pre scripts to do that for you.

duplicity itself uses python tarfile, not the system tar binary, which seems 
not to have xattr support out of the box.

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