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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



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