Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to back up SELinux contexts?

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Troels Arvin wrote:

> I'm backing up a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with enabled SELinux support.
> It seems that SELinux "security contexts" for files aren't backed up by
> rdiff-backup.
> 
> I tought that SELinux's security contexts were implemented by extended
> attributes (and that rdiff-backup would therefore be able to record them),
> but - well, rdiff-backup doesn't seem to store them, even when doing
> filesystem-to-filesystem backups on the same file system (no network
> in-between).

you probably need to install pyxattr package... i don't know the redhat 
package name.  install pylibacl while you're at it...

-dean