On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that > it does not save ACLs, file attributes too well, and so on that I > gave up using it. Perhaps the problem in this case is not to use > the -a option but to use the manual options to save everything > about the files that you can. > > Specifically: > rsync manual: > -a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) > -H, --hard-links preserve hard links > -A, --acls preserve ACLs (implies -p) > -X, --xattrs preserve extended attributes Do you mean that you've tried these (particularly -A and -X) and they don't work? If so, have you filed a bug report? Also, have you looked at [1] wrt copying while maintaining SElinux contexts? [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f10/en-US/sect-Security-Enhanced_Linux-Working_with_SELinux-Maintaining_SELinux_Labels_.html poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines