Hello, From my research, it appears that Rclone does not support extended attributes on OSX or Linux. Please see the links below. [image] Filebot and xattr Feature Not sure if this is a feature request or not so I thought I would post it here first. I was attempting to…

[image] Coder007: From my research, it appears that Rclone does not support extended attributes on OSX or Linux. Please see the links below. Filebot and xattr feature That is correct, yes. This is something which could be fixed in the local backend, the file might appear as file.txt with f…

Thank you for your reply, @ncw . My current use case is backing up a Windows client to a yet unknown cloud provider (most likely a Google or Amazon product). The reason I asked about Linux and OSX is because I am an IT Manager, and some of my machines may end up being OSX (and very rarely, Linux). …

[image] Coder007: Could you please explain how to handle xattrs on the local backend? It would need a code patch to rclone. [image] Coder007: Also, how would using Rclone as a Restic backend solve the xattrs problem? restic stores the attrs in binary blobs. It then uses rclone to sav…

Thanks again for your help. I was just studying Restic. It would seem that if I use Restic and Rclone, the 1:1 ratio between my original file system and the cloud would be broken. Is this accurate? Some cloud storage providers do support xattrs ( Rsync.net ). Do you (or your team) have any plans …

[image] Coder007: I was just studying Restic. It would seem that if I use Restic and Rclone, the 1:1 ratio between my original file system and the cloud would be broken. Is this accurate? Yes, that is correct. [image] Coder007: Some cloud storage providers do support xattrs ( Rsync.net ). …

Thanks again for your reply. I would love to help you out. The only problem is that I don't know Go. I am at the very beginning of transferring from IT to programming, so the only languages I currently know are C and a bit of C++. Maybe someday I will learn Go. Thanks again for all of your help…

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