How to correctly backup and restore ~/.local/share/containers?

[space88man]

What is the correct way to backup and restore ~/.local.share/containers?

When I try to do a backup and restore of ~/.local/share/containers the restored data cannot be restarted due SELinux denials. If setenforce 0 is set - the user containers will start.

Tried (and failed):

• with rsync

    # as user rsync fails with permission errors: as root
    rsync -avz containers/ containers.backup/
    mv containers containers.save
    mv containers.backup containers
    
    # now containers won't start with SELinux denials
  

• with tar

    # as user tar fails with permission errors: as root
    tar -cf - --xattrs --selinux  -C containers/ . | tar -C  containers.backup/ --selinux --xattrs -xf -
    mv containers containers.save
    mv containers.backup containers
    
    # now containers won't start with SELinux denials
  

[rhatdan]

Your Tar is not maintaining the XAttrs of the files, so they are loosing the fact that they were labeled container_file_t.