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.
>
> ..ede/duply.net
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/558385
>
> 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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