beagle backup (user_xattr)

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Mar 8 08:19:12 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> How can we backup beagle data, including user_xattr?
> 
> What happens if we don't restore user_xattr correctly?  Will beagle re-create it?

beagle uses the xattrs to store information about if/when/how the file
was indexed. I think its fine if this information gets lost, although it
will cause beagle to re-index the file.

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