How To preserve file attributes (chattr/lsattr) when copy it to another location

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 17:13 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> I must copy a dir with some file with 'i' attribute set, but rsync (or
> cp) do not copy this attribute.
> 
> See this little example:
> 
>         # touch testfile
>         # chattr +i testfile
>         # rsync -aAX testfile testfile2
>         # lsattr testfile*
>         ----i---------- testfile
>         --------------- testfile2
> 
> There is a way to copy all attribute?

Apologies for my earlier reply. After hitting Send I noticed that you
had in fact tried the archive option.

poc