Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

[David Magda]

On Mar 1, 2013, at 15:39, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>> What about extended attributes? ACLs? Are those saved by tar?
> 
> I think tar (as root or -p) will attempt to preserve those.

Specifically bsdtar (with libarchive) and star:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarPosix1eACLs
http://www.freshports.org/archivers/star/

GNUtar is a bit tricky: older versions don't handle ACLs at all so you have to check version numbers on your creation and extraction hosts.