Supported Metadata

CrashPlan supports metadata on all platforms.

Mac

Supported
  • Data fork
  • Resource fork
  • Owner information for regular files and directories
  • Symlink owner information
  • POSIX permissions
  • Finder Flags/Info (including type/creator)
  • Locked flag (this is part of Finder Flags)
  • Modification date
  • Creation date
  • Finder comments (.DS_Store file)
  • ACLs
Unsupported
  • Other named forks
  • BSD Flags, which can be set via chflags
  • HFS+ extended attributes (i.e. xattr)
  • Aliases

Notes

When copying a file (and therefore restoring) to a non-HFS+ file system, any info not in the data file is stored in a “dot-underscore” file.
For example, if you copy an HFS+ file named MyMug.jpg to a FAT 32 volume, there will be a file named ._MyMug.jpg in addition to the MyMug.jpg file in the same location.

Windows

  • ARCHIVE
  • COMPRESSED
  • DIRECTORY
  • ENCRYPTED
  • HIDDEN
  • NORMAL
  • NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED
  • OFFLINE
  • READONLY
  • REPARSE_POINT
  • SPARSE_FILE
  • SYSTEM
  • TEMPORARY

Linux

  • Permissions: UGO, RWX