From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 15:38:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CEC16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E716343D1D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HUC00MIG1HF2V@smtp03.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:34:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i29NaB3A025031; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:36:11 +0100 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i29NaBRo025030; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:36:11 +0100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:36:11 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <6.0.0.22.0.20040309174210.21cd7918@pop.face2interface.com> To: Marty Landman Message-id: <20040309233611.GB24012@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <6.0.0.22.0.20040309174210.21cd7918@pop.face2interface.com> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using samba for backups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:38:43 -0000 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > Maybe a dumb question, but now that I have samba servers on all three of my > nix boxes with mapped drives on my two windows workstations there's a great > temptation brewing in my mind to backup things directly on mapped hard > drives. > > Are there any potential pitfalls to this approach, iow are there any > compatibility issues that come up if I copy files from a nix box to a > windows box and vice versa? The Windows box FS doesn't support the char that a BSD box does. It depends on how you like to backup and what you like to backup. If non of the files and dirs have stange char (like ?) then you prity safe on this point. If they do then you could always tar them. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/