Backup all metadata, custom icons, ACLs, extended attributes?

As a programming project I am looking at backing up absolutely everything associated with files and directories so that it can be restored perfectly. This would include associated metadata, resource fork, custom icon, permissions, access control list, extended attributes, and probably stuff I don't even know exists. Since this is just an experiment, I will be using a scripting language. Performance is not an issue so I'm willing to make system calls to gather the information.
Is there a one-stop solution or would I need to use a mix of command line tools to gather this data?
I've read up a bit about xattr, GetFileInfo/SetFile but I hope there's an easier and/or more comprehensive way. I've tried Googling some of this, but this presupposed I even know what to search for. I'm guessing I'm only getting partial information.
Can anyone point me to the definitive procedure to backup and restore OS X files in all their glory? The script would need to run automatically with admin or root privileges to access everything.
Many thanks.

Doesn't sound like there is any corruption going on to me. It may change the date modified, but that should be expected since you modified the file.

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"Error writing metadata to" message and extended attributes

After being frustrated by this error message in Bridge while trying to apply keywords to various image files I finally took the time to investigate, and I think I found the cause of the issue. In a nutshell, if the extend attribute "com.apple.FinderInfo" has not yet been created for a given file, then this message appears.
The start of the puzzle was that some files would take the keyword and others would not. After observing identical permissions on files that worked and files that did not, I noticed that in a terminal listing of the files in question, some files had extended attributes and some did not (extended attributes are identified by an @ symbol when running ls -la in a terminal window. For example:
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-rw-rw-rw-@   1 mike staff 27200794 17 Jan 17:52 120114-133145-4613.cr2
-rw-rw-rw-    1 mike staff      5702 21 Jan 22:42 120114-133145-4613.xmp
-rw-rw-rw-@   1 mike staff 26973498 21 Jan 23:07 120114-133149-4614.cr2
-rw-rw-rw-@   1 mike staff      6648 21 Jan 23:19 120114-133149-4614.xmp
As you can see, the file called 120114-133145-4613.xmp has not extended attribute, but the file 120114-133149-4614.xmp does. The former throws an error when applying a keyword, the latter does not.
So I dug a bit further and it appears that when the file attribute called com.apple.FileInfo is missing from an xmp file, metadata cannot be witten. The contents of this extended attribute for a working XMP file look like this
$ xattr -l 120114-133058-4611.xmp
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 54 45 58 54 43 52 61 77 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |TEXTCRaw........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020
According to specs I found googling, the first 4 bits identify the file type (TEXT), and the next four identify the file creator (CRaw). IOW no file-specific info seems to be present.
So as a test, I simply copied the contents of com.apple.FinderInfo from a file that had it to a file that didn't. Once the file that didn't received the new attribute, metadata writes worked. The command I used for the copy was
xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "`xattr -px com.apple.FinderInfo 120114-133534-4633.xmp`" 120114-133041-4602.xmp
It also appears that this metadata is written by Bridge based on some unknown trigger, because occasionally during my investigation a file that previously would not take metadata suddenly did, and once I knew to look for extended attributes, in every case the file in question suddenly had com.apple.FinderInfo extended attribute.
So...I'm not sure if this is a bug in finder or in bridge, but it is definitely a bug and needs to be addressed.
...Mike

I have tried purging the cache, and also deleting it entirely and starting over, to no effect.
Mike
just did a quick try and don't know if it is the right way.
Using Lightroom 3.6 (not very familiar with Lightroom) and Bridge 4.0.5.11 on MacOSX 10.6.8
I randomly choose some CR2 files that where somewhere on my system and copied them to a new folder. Imported them in Lightroom and added some rating and a few keywords. (with setting metadata to XMP file active)
Then went to Bridge and opened the same folder. After caching Bridge showed the info as filed in Lightroom. Added some keywords to all files without problem. Went back to Lightroom (restarted it and had to choose read metadata menu. After this no problem to read new keywords form Bridge. But they only show in Italic because the have not been made persistent in the Bridge keyword list, however this is as expected behavior.
Tried a develop setting and that was also showing in Bridge correctly. Went a few times back and fort (files in Lightroom showing a memo with Exclamation sign top right of the in Bridge changed thumbnail asking for reading metadata).
Is this about the way you mean to describe?
And when having set Automatically export changes to XMP have you set this option in both Lightroom and Bridge (this s to be found in the Camera Raw preferences 'save image settings in: sidecar XMP')
And there are a few things to refresh also in Bridge besides the deleting of the cache file, you can also delete the Bridge plist file from the user library preferences and restart Bridge holding down option key and chose reset preferences. And did you run the check and repair permissions for your system also?
I tried to look in terminal but could not find a way to use the ls -la command on the folder with changed files so no comparing on that side I'm afraid.

Getting all metadata (custom & OOTB) for a content

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"Open With"- "Change All" corrupts your file (Resource forks, extended attributes, creation date)

I finally know why some of my files get corrupted.
If you use the following method to assign one kind of file to always open with the same application;
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8387.html
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Besides that is adds an extended attribute (which can be deleted with the "xattr --help" command) the modification date of the selected file will be changed.
I think this is irritating because I wan't to keep my master photos with the same modification date as creation date.
What else does it effect besides the modification date and to add extended attributes? Does my metadata get intact?
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Doesn't sound like there is any corruption going on to me. It may change the date modified, but that should be expected since you modified the file.

HELP: Extended Attributes Not Appearing In Instances of Custom Content Type

From Java code I create a custom content type derived from Document and define some extended attributes with default values for that type. All done using the same methodology shown in the Developer's Guide and Oracle example code.
I start ifsmgr and I can indeed see the content type and the extended attributes.
If I however create an instance of this (custom) type, either from the Viewer (file Upload) or from Java code (using code simuilar to createDocument from the Oracle ContentModule example), the extended attributes do not appear!
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I've tried deleting all instances of the custom type and closing both ifsmgr and the Viewer, but unless I delete one of the extended attributes from ifsmgr I cannot get new extended attributes to appear.
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Hello,
In view T77OMATTR we added a new extended attribute but it does not appear on "extended attribute" tab. I suppose additional work is to be done to get it displayed. Any idea?
We have no issue with custom attributes in "attribute" tab.
Thanks in advance

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When we update formulation specifications we are finding that the extended attributes and custom sections are not automatically updating in the ingredient output. Is this how the system is designed? Is it possible to get the ingredient outputs to update automatically?
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Hi there,
I've been using rsync for quite a while now to perform various backups on my network, and it's been working without issue.
What I'm wondering today is if it's possible to create an rsync job that can filter on the colour label value of a folder? Bascially I'd like a job that essentially does
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bash doesn't look to have a direct path into Finder's sort-of-private extended attribute information, save via some "creativity" involving xargs and xattr.
There are also paths into the extended attributes via Perl and via [Python xattr calls|http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Developer>.
Invoking osascript to script Finder via AppleScript can be be a path.
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The "sneaky" or "clever" approach would be a customized rsync; tweak the file selection logic to do what you want.
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2014-06-12 20:58:36 -0400: Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
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2014-06-12 20:58:36 -0400: Load and verify Block Accounting
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2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Load and verify Block Accounting
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Load and verify Segment Cleaning
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: The volume D79A3F82-3153-4DCC-A58F-C9B3ADAD2F6E appears to be OK
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Checking file system
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Performing live verification.
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Checking extents overflow file.
2014-06-12 20:58:37 -0400: Checking catalog file.
2014-06-12 20:58:59 -0400: Checking multi-linked files.
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400: Checking extended attributes file.
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400: (It should be 15783744 instead of 14437995)
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400: Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400:
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD”: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
2014-06-12 20:59:30 -0400:

I'm having a similar problem with my G4 Desktop.
I have a 2nd internal hard drive and 2 FW Drives.
None of them are able to be verified or repaired using DU.
I get the following message: "Verify volume failed with error Could not unmount disk." And then some message about "make sure that all your files are closed."
I tried soft-booting by holding the shift-key down just as a trouble-shooting idea and I was able to verify and the drives were working well. However, when I restarted in normal mode I was not able to verify or repair.
What is my G4's problem? Why does it need to use that secondary drive in order to operate? What do I need to do to fix it?
Any suggestions?
G4 Dual 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 Gig Ram / 2 Internal Hard Drives

No permission to copy file (to NAS with AFP support) - extended attributes?

For certain files that I copy from one of my drives to the NAS here (Synology 206j), ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, Finder's behaviour has changed. It will simply refuse to copy the file, stating that "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items."
The source is an external USB drive in Mac OS Extended format, I do have full permissions on the files and in any case the drive is set to ignore ownership.
The target is, like most NASes, in EXT3 format. It's sharing via its own AFP implementation.
I'd have tried repairing permissions, but for whatever reason, it's greyed out on my external drives. Since then I've figured that it was probably not that anyway, which will become apparent:
I tried copying the file via the terminal and it actually worked, but also gave an error: "cp: myfile: could not copy extended attributes to /Volumes/media backup/myfile: Operation not permitted"
This suggests to me that, as expected, the target volume doesn't support extended attributes. But rather than popping up with the message that Leopard did (something along the lines of "your target volume doesn't support extended attributes so your file's metadata may be lost, do you wish to continue") it just aborts instead.
I'm not sure if this is a Snow Leopard problem or a change that Synology need to catch up with. A workaround is to compress the file to ZIP first.
Thought I'd mention it here before trying to report it as a bug somewhere. Anyone else having similar issues, either with a NAS or some other storage, in which case please specify?
Message was edited by: Cloudane

Thanks guys, yeah I've been monitoring the netatalk mailing list myself: they're onto the same problem, have come to the same conclusions about it being Extended Attributes and have much better proof of such than I
It looks like they're currently debating the best way to fix it (pretending to support EAs but sending them to a black hole being the quick and dirty way, but I suspect they'll go for implementation)
It'll be a while for sure, but the Synology guys are very good with Mac support so I'm sure they'll apply the update fairly quickly once the netatalk crew get something public. FWIW, I did detect a certain sense of urgency from the netatalk discussions.
Although it's essentially answered, I'll leave the question marked as unanswered in case Apple come up with a better one
Message was edited by: Cloudane

Backup all metadata, custom icons, ACLs, extended attributes?

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