5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
11:17 a.m.
On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 12:59 +0300, Dimitri Zelenkin via CentOS wrote:
Pete Biggs wrote:
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.
The most important question here is obvious: have you lost your data?
Me? No. It was just annoying that I had to re-backup 4Tb of data to a remote server that only allowed me to send 200Gb a day when the only thing that had changed was the ACL and SELinux labelling that we don't even use on the filesystem.
P.