Thanks! If I understand correctly this is taken care of by tar czvf {backup file}.tgz --xattrs --sparse . (which should work on CentOS-6.5)? On 10/21/2014 10:16 AM, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > filesystems, you should also backup and restore the xattrs on all the > files as is needed for the MDT filesystem backup/restore process. Kind regards, /jon