From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: As RHEL4 has support for SELinux and we enable it by default, we should make sure we can back up and restore a machine which has SELinux enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): amanda-2.4.4p3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grab amanda-2.4.4p3-1 source rpm 2. install said srpm 3. look at the ./configure line in the spec file Actual Results: --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Expected Results: --with-gnutar=/usr/bin/star or pax AFAIK these are the only tow options to back up SELinux flags. IIRC the consenss on tech-list was that while both are not perfect, pax is preferable. Additional info:
The last time I tried, neither star or pax included gnutar's incremental backup functionality, which Amanda uses. Therefore, before Amanda can use either of them, their functionality will have to be improved. On fenlason-rhide.boston.redhat.com, the command Amanda used was: /bin/tar: gtar --create --file - --directory / --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/fenlason-rhide.boston.redhat.com__0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /var/log/amanda/sendbackup._.20050719025115.exclude . Neither pax or star will accept these options. Submit an enhancement request against pax or star (or both) to accept these options. Or submit an enhancement request against dump or tar to support EAs and ACLs. I had forseen this difficulty and was working on a new archiver called ATDS to be used as a back end for Amanda to deal with this (and some other) problems. Unfortunatly, laroche told me to stop working on it, and I haven't had any free time to work on it at home. . . This should probably be CLOSED->NOTAMANDASBUG but I'm going to leave it open as a placeholder.
Jay, I have opened an RFE for both pax (163715) and star (163716). As I have no customer request so far I did not open a FZ. Feel free to close this one, as CLOSED->NOTAMANDASBUG
OK, closing