Re: FC4: which tool to dump ext3 file systems while keeping ext_attr and context information

[Peter Gordon]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:54 -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Any can help me choose a tool to backup ext3 file
> systems on FC4? gtar, star? dump?
>
> It's rumored that the gnu tar is not good at saving
> extended file system information, while I need to save
> not only file system's data, but also extented
> information like ACL, context, etc.

You might want to try something like cpio.