On 08/12/2009 05:07 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Daniel J Walshdwalsh@redhat.com
wrote: originals.
Is this how others do backups?
Cant speak for others but I do not backup selinux labels. I cannot speak to other attributes or ACL's.
I think of selinux labels as belonging to the host server policy not the backup machine - so the policy in my mind comes from the target where the backups would be restored to.
So, if you backed up /home/cloaked/foo and restored it to bing:/home/cloaked/foo then I would expect the labels to come from the policy on bing - whether or not the backup was made from bing or somewhere else.
How would this differ if rdiff-backup was used instead? Since rdiff-backup is rsync based ....
Dunno - I kind of thought rdiff-backup had better extended attribute handling than rsync itself and its my preferred tool anyway.
gene/