From: Robert Watson (rwatsonFreeBSD.org)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 07:41:15 CDT

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:

>> I've created a patch for libarchive that allows storing and restoring MAC
>> labels from/to a multilabel filesystem using bsdtar. Now before going
>> anywhere with this I had a few questions:

...

> Thank-you for addressing a significant backup/recovery shortcoming.
>
> I've used biba extensively, however if files/directories are backed-up with
> MLS+biba and recovered in a biba only environment, that is the sysadmin
> choice. Warning messages are fine, but the restoration should continue (if
> possible).

I'd also like to see this go back into libarchive; I suspect many people would
find this useful.

Robert
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