Does GNU Tar have a single option to get absolutely everything about a tree

I'm in a situation where I want the kind of guarantees of getting every bit of data and metadata about a tree of files that might normally require using dump/restore. I need *everything* uids, gids, permissions, hardlinks, attributes, xattrs, and anything else I might not even know about. And it would save me a lot of effort if I could do this for a tree instead of an image file, so dump is not the preferred path. Is there any simplified option or set of options for GNU Tar that guarantee it will catch everything? Or am I stuck with --xattrs-include='*' or --xattrs-include='*.*' and hoping I know everything?