Status

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Current status

The project is currently still in development. Anyway, all the standard stuff is already implemented and several versions have already been released. It should not be used on a production environment yet. It's provided for testing purposes only. It's currently undergoing a stabilization process, and important tests are being made.

The current version supports backing-up and restoring an unix file-system with all the standard file attributes (permissions, date/time, ...) and for the extended-attributes. Linux ACL (Access Control Lists) are preserved when the partition is mounted with the correct mount options, since ACL are implemented as standard extended-attributes on linux filesystems.

The current version supports lzo, gzip, bzip2 and lzma compression algorithms (it's done at the file block level). The archive file format is now frozen so compatibility will be preserved in new versions.

As you may know if you read the page about the test procedure, fsarchiver has been able to save and restore the root fileystem of various Linux distributions. All the file attributes been preserved, including the extended-attributes which are used by SELinux, and that are required to get the system to boot correctly.