5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
9:15 a.m.
The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to the new filesystem.
Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem and the backup system decided everything had changed because the attributes had changed. I've settled on using "rsync -avHAX ..." and that seems to keep everything preserved.
P.