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MacOS X makes heavy use of xattrs, too.

> Yes, there's a whole bunch of things currently not captured at the filesystem level, including setuid/gid, hardlinks, mount points, sockets, xattr, ACLs, etc.

That was three years ago and it sounds like things are only slightly better.

These people are incompetent at making backup software.



I'm unsure if saying they're incompetent is the right thing. They just have a different priorities than you do.




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