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| From | Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] |
| Date | 2018-11-19 19:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <wVW02-5PJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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> On Nov 18, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > Hi. > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>>> On 11/14/18, Reco <recoverym4n@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 <recoverym4n@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 Fascinating… 1) Are there any other extended attributes that are not copied by rsync? Or is there something special about “immutable”. 2) Is this a bug or a feature? Should there be a bg report filed on this phenomenon? If not, should it be documented in the rsync(1) man page? Does that need a bug report? Enjoy! Rick
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Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 16:10 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 17:00 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 17:40 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 19:00 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 19:30 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 23:10 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 06:10 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 16:50 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 18:20 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 20:10 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 20:30 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 21:20 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 18:50 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-11-15 01:20 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 06:20 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-11-15 09:30 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-11-18 21:00 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-19 04:40 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-11-19 19:00 +0100
Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-19 20:00 +0100
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