[arde]

Very interesting, I like its design better. Could you comment on whether bupstash supports ACLs (POSIX, xattr, etc.)? According to issue #25 it does, but I couldn't find documentation on how to exclude it when restoring, viewing it, etc.

[andrewchambers]

The default is to exclude them, but commands like get/restore/put take options to enable xattr support. The reason for ignoring them by default is simply pragmatic - fewer syscalls while walking the filesystem.