Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity, OS X custom extended file attributes(metadata)

[Nathaniel Nutter]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Saptarshi Guha
<address@hidden> wrote:
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>         Rdiff-backup does not seem to suffer from this.
>
>         Hoping to find a solution.
>

This is pretty well discussed/covered on the website and mail archives
but in short I think the reason is that Duplicity uses archives (tar)
that do not support the metadata. Now OS X has a version of tar that
does support metadata but unfortunately the python API does not (which
is what Duplicity uses to create the archive). Someday Duplicity may
move to a more Mac OS X friendly archive format but that hasn't
happened yet.

Nathan