Backup failure

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:22:42 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>On 27 September 2015 at 10:16,  <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:34:48 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>>>I would probably format the USB stick with a file system that
>>>supports all the regular Linux attributes, such as ext4
>>
>> Usually I backup to tar archives using compression, but indeed tar
>> seems not to preserve attributes.
>
>To preserver permissions use tar -p

I checked if the attribute is preserved when using sudo, but it isn't,
however, as you can see the permissions are preserved without the -p
option [1].

From the man page:

"-p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
  extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)"

Anyway, permissions are not the same as attributes ;) and [1] also
shows that attributes are not preserved.

[1]
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ touch test.txt
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ sudo chattr +i test.txt 
[sudo] password for rocketmouse: 
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ sudo tar cf test.bak test.txt 
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ ls -hAl
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root        10K Sep 27 11:27 test.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse   0 Sep 27 11:26 test.txt
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ lsattr *
---------------- test.bak
----i----------- test.txt
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ sudo chattr -i test.txt 
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ rm test.txt 
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ ls -hAl
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10K Sep 27 11:27 test.bak
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ sudo tar xf test.bak
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ ls -hAl
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root        root        10K Sep 27 11:27 test.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse   0 Sep 27 11:26 test.txt
[rocketmouse at archlinux Desktop]$ lsattr *
---------------- test.bak
---------------- test.txt