On 06Nov2020 02:17, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I'm not sure what special attributes you're concerned about, though. >If you're backing up personal data files, they don't tend to have >*special* attributes. There's lots of scope for using xattrs for tagging. But it also souldn't like the OP may have a backup system for bulk archives which doesn't honour all the fiddly weird stuff and wants a way to apply that after a restore (or to quickly reapply after some process which is known to damage it). Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx