Replying to Colin Walters: > It doesn't look to me like librsync supports xattrs either, so none of > the programs based on it like rdiff-backup will. rdiff-backup only uses librsync to calculate increments of file data. By its design stuff like xattr and acl belong to file metadata. It can store them too but if corresponding python modules (pylibacl and pyxattr) available -- Paul P 'Stingray' Komkoff Jr // http://stingr.net/key <- my pgp key This message represents the official view of the voices in my head