Re: star warnings about ACLs and sockets

Akop Pogosian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also, I see errors like:
>
> /opt/local/bin/star: 'b/-h' unsupported file type 'socket'. Not dumped.
>
> What options should I use to make sure that sockets (and as many other
> file types and file attributes as possible) are preserved?

If you really like to copy sockets, use  a better archive format.

If you use star -copy (see EXAMPLES in the star man page), you will get the
best archive format by default and it will speed up the copy process.
Star -copy is the fastest known method to copy filesystems (~20% faster
than ufsdump | ufsrestore) in case you use a decently large FIFO (e.g. 64m).

Note that star does not yet copy extended attribute files, but so far I know
nobody who uses them.

Jörg

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