How to copy a Fedora system?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:04 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:36 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy 
> <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> > The only issue is that I got thousands of warnings during the restores,
> > like this:
> >
> > restore: lsetxattr ./etc/hotplug/pci.agent failed: Operation not supported
> >
> > I compared the old and new files with "stat" but couldn't see any
> > difference apart from the inode numbers,
> > and the system seems to be working fine.
> > I wonder if this has something to do with selinux
> > (which I have turned off)?
> 
> I'd raise this on the dump mailing list. The developer is very responsive 
> there.
> 
> "man lsetxattr" indicates that this is an issue with extended attributes. I 
> think you can see those with the "lsattr" command. (Example: I set the "d" 
> attribute on things I don't want routinely dumped, like my Fedora DVD image 
> that's mounted as a yum core repository.)
> 
The extended attributes are AFAIK SElinux related, and if the dump is
not properly restoring that it certainly should be submitted as a bug.

OTOH, if you are running with SElinux disabled or permissive then they
will not prevent operations, merely generate a lot of warnings.