diff --git a/attic/archiver.py b/attic/archiver.py
index 5731ffb4..05076fc0 100644
--- a/attic/archiver.py
+++ b/attic/archiver.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     is_cachedir, bigint_to_int
 from attic.remote import RepositoryServer, RemoteRepository
 
+has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
 
 class Archiver:
 
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ def _process(self, archive, cache, excludes, exclude_caches, skip_inodes, path,
         # Ignore unix sockets
         if stat.S_ISSOCK(st.st_mode):
             return
+        # Ignore if nodump flag set
+        if has_lchflags and (st.st_flags & stat.UF_NODUMP):
+            return
         self.print_verbose(remove_surrogates(path))
         if stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode):
             try: