Comment 5 for bug 558385

Agreed. We use tar for storage, but never call it directly, so we would
have to gather and store the xattrs/acls ourselves anyway in a format that
duplicity would understand, so no reason to change formats at this time.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, edso <email address hidden> wrote:

> libarchive would introduce another platform specific binary dependency.
> i'd rather go for a pure python based solution.
>
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> Title:
> Duplicity doesn't save ACLs/xattrs
>
> Status in Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Have an ext3 filesystem mounted with -o acl,user_xattr and directory
> on it with some files having acls and extended attributes.
>
> duplicity --no-encryption dir file://bk
> duplicity --no-encryption file://bk res
>
> Now files in res have no ACLs nor xattrs.
>
> duplicity 0.6.08b (from distro and from sources)
>
> Python 2.5.5
>
> Debian testing GNU/Linux
>
> aiur:/mnt/test# duplicity -v9 --no-encryption alfa/ file://bk
> Using archive dir:
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e
> Using backup name: 31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e
> Import of duplicity.backends.tahoebackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.rsyncbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.imapbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.ftpbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.localbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.webdavbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.hsibackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.cloudfilesbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.sshbackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.giobackend Succeeded
> Import of duplicity.backends.botobackend Succeeded
> Main action: inc
>
> ================================================================================
> duplicity 0.6.08b (March 11, 2010)
> Args: /usr/bin/duplicity -v9 --no-encryption alfa/ file://bk
> Linux aiur 2.6.32.7-aiur #3 SMP Wed Feb 10 20:35:13 YEKT 2010 i686
> /usr/bin/python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Feb 1 2010, 19:53:42)
> [GCC 4.4.3]
>
> ================================================================================
> Using temporary directory /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir
> Registering (mkstemp) temporary file
> /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir/mkstemp-AMb2kK-1
> Temp has 249462784 available, backup will use approx 34078720.
> Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache...
> Deleting local
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-full-signatures.20100408T115330Z.sigtar.gz
> (not authoritative at backend).
> Deleting local
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-full.20100408T115330Z.manifest
> (not authoritative at backend).
> 0 files exist on backend
> 0 files exist in cache
> Extracting backup chains from list of files: []
> Last full backup date: none
> Collection Status
> -----------------
> Connecting with backend: LocalBackend
> Archive dir: /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e
>
> Found 0 secondary backup chains.
> No backup chains with active signatures found
> No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
> No signatures found, switching to full backup.
> Using temporary directory
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-AWuhUl-tempdir
> Registering (mktemp) temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-AWuhUl-tempdir/mktemp-P4y5eN-1
> Using temporary directory
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-ZR3L5J-tempdir
> Registering (mktemp) temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-ZR3L5J-tempdir/mktemp-OP8eXA-1
> AsyncScheduler: instantiating at concurrency 0
> Registering (mktemp) temporary file
> /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir/mktemp-ArJkgN-2
> Selecting alfa
> Comparing () and None
> Getting delta of (() alfa dir) and None
> A .
> Selecting alfa/file
> Comparing ('file',) and None
> Getting delta of (('file',) alfa/file reg) and None
> A file
> Selecting alfa/test
> Comparing ('test',) and None
> Getting delta of (('test',) alfa/test reg) and None
> A test
> Selecting alfa/
> Comparing ('\xed\xf4',) and None
> Getting delta of (('\xed\xf4',) alfa/reg) and None
> A
> Selecting alfa/
> Comparing ('\xf2\xe5\xf1\xf2',) and None
> Getting delta of (('\xf2\xe5\xf1\xf2',) alfa/ reg) and None
> A
> Removing still remembered temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-AWuhUl-tempdir/mktemp-P4y5eN-1
> Cleanup of temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-AWuhUl-tempdir/mktemp-P4y5eN-1
> failed
> Removing still remembered temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-ZR3L5J-tempdir/mktemp-OP8eXA-1
> Cleanup of temporary file
> /root/.cache/duplicity/31f2abd7613ded96f788766f0cbee63e/duplicity-ZR3L5J-tempdir/mktemp-OP8eXA-1
> failed
> AsyncScheduler: running task synchronously (asynchronicity disabled)
> Writing bk/duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.vol1.difftar.gz
> Deleting /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir/mktemp-ArJkgN-2
> Forgetting temporary file /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir/mktemp-ArJkgN-2
> AsyncScheduler: task completed successfully
> Processed volume 1
> Writing bk/duplicity-full-signatures.20100408T120817Z.sigtar.gz
> Writing bk/duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.manifest
> 3 files exist on backend
> 2 files exist in cache
> Extracting backup chains from list of files:
> ['duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.manifest',
> 'duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.vol1.difftar.gz',
> 'duplicity-full-signatures.20100408T120817Z.sigtar.gz']
> File duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.manifest is not part of a known
> set; creating new set
> File duplicity-full.20100408T120817Z.vol1.difftar.gz is part of known set
> File duplicity-full-signatures.20100408T120817Z.sigtar.gz is not part of
> a known set; creating new set
> Ignoring file (rejected by backup set)
> 'duplicity-full-signatures.20100408T120817Z.sigtar.gz'
> Found backup chain [Thu Apr 8 18:08:17 2010]-[Thu Apr 8 18:08:17 2010]
> --------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
> StartTime 1270728497.40 (Thu Apr 8 18:08:17 2010)
> EndTime 1270728497.42 (Thu Apr 8 18:08:17 2010)
> ElapsedTime 0.01 (0.01 seconds)
> SourceFiles 5
> SourceFileSize 1024 (1.00 KB)
> NewFiles 5
> NewFileSize 1024 (1.00 KB)
> DeletedFiles 0
> ChangedFiles 0
> ChangedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
> DeltaEntries 5
> RawDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
> TotalDestinationSizeChange 220 (220 bytes)
> Errors 0
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Removing still remembered temporary file /tmp/duplicity-a5WVEO-tempdir
> /mkstemp-AMb2kK-1
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