rdiff-backup not saving metadata, Finder Information, Extended Attributes

[stevenospam at gmail.com]

Hi,

maybe someone can point me to solving this.

rdiff-backup is not preserving metadata.

$ port -v
MacPorts 2.3.4

I installed rdiff-backup from macports on OS X 10.11 El Capitan,
$ port installed rdiff-backup
The following ports are currently installed:
  rdiff-backup @1.2.8_3 (active)

but it's not copying Finder Information and Extended Attributes.

In a very basic test, I am copying directory 1 to directory 2 from/to the same local HFS+ extended formatted drive:

It doesnt work, so I also tried installing these:

$ port installed xattr py-xattr py27-xattr
The following ports are currently installed:
  py-xattr @0.7.5_0 (active)
  py27-xattr @0.7.5_0 (active)
  xattr @0.1_2 (active)

Below is the verbose rdiff-backup output, providing a description of what metadata is supported

Any ideas?  Thank you


$ rdiff-backup -v4 1 2
Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 1
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at 1
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at 1
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             Off
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                On
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at 2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at 2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 2/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Symlink permissions                          On
  Extended filenames                           On
  Windows reserved filenames                   Off
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             Off
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                On
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Backup: must_escape_dos_devices = 0
Starting increment operation 1 to 2