On Thursday 26 August 2010 12:17:05 Jorge Fábregas wrote: > AFAIK, the "tar" command on CentOS 5 is not aware of these and you need to > use one called "star" Check your CentOS release level. I just checked now and on 5.5 the tar command (man tar) shows some options for acl and selinux (you need to be explicit about these in order to get these attributes). -- Jorge