[CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

Ed Heron Ed at Heron-ent.com
Wed May 13 16:36:01 UTC 2009


From: "Phil Schaffner", Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:20 AM

> It "just works".  I habitually use rsync for incremental updates across
> directories or systems, but tar is often more robust for this type of
> job, just because of things like needing to remember to use -H. Both
> rsync and cpio will work if used properly, just like tar.  Like I said,
> largely a matter of preference.

  I read somewhere that tar doesn't save extended attributes.  Is this still 
the case or did I read old news?

  Should we submit a bug report somewhere for rsync not correctly copying 
SELinux attributes?  Or is it some mistake of mine that it didn't appear to 
work?



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