From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 8 8:40:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E8715332 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25033; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeremy Campbell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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