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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to back up SELinux contexts?
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dean gaudet |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to back up SELinux contexts? |
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Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:48:42 -0800 (PST) |
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Troels Arvin wrote:
> I'm backing up a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with enabled SELinux support.
> It seems that SELinux "security contexts" for files aren't backed up by
> rdiff-backup.
>
> I tought that SELinux's security contexts were implemented by extended
> attributes (and that rdiff-backup would therefore be able to record them),
> but - well, rdiff-backup doesn't seem to store them, even when doing
> filesystem-to-filesystem backups on the same file system (no network
> in-between).
you probably need to install pyxattr package... i don't know the redhat
package name. install pylibacl while you're at it...
-dean
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to back up SELinux contexts?, Ben Escoto, 2006/01/29