Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jeremy Campbell <campbellj@ctbsonline.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910080858120.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <FKEFJEHCOAHPAIEJMAMOOEAJCAAA.campbellj@ctbsonline.com>
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Jeremy Campbell wrote: > I have a single FreeBSD machine, and a NT machine. The NT machine has a DLT > tape drive. I would like to use it to backup my FreeBSD machine. Is there > any way to do this and have the backup retain the permission information of > the files/directories? I could make a Samba share of "/" and back it up > over that, but if I needed to restore the files, would they have the same > permissions as they had whenever I backed them up? It would more than likely fubar them in a bad way, you should check out dump/restore, they can create files that you can send to the NT server to backup, they will retain just about all the filesystem information you need to do a proper restore. > What is normal procedure in a situation such as this? dump/restore or a commercial backup program. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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