From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 02:00:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363E110656E0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp3.iomartmail.com (asmtp3.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04B08FC08 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp3.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp3.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o87205AK011147; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:00:05 +0100 Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (80-45-152-196.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.45.152.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp3.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o87204aS011141; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0100 Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8882A33C3D; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Danny Carroll Message-ID: <20100907020004.GB21193@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4C8597C7.7010002@dannysplace.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C8597C7.7010002@dannysplace.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows XP Backup resetting unix perms. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:00:16 -0000 On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:39:19AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: > > Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP > machine in preparation for a migration. > I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in > my home directory I noticed that it set u-x permissions on all of the > files. > Directories are unaffected. > > If I use XP's security dialog to set the permissions back, they are > applied OK. > > Has anyone seen this behaviour before? > Yeah, it does that because it doesn't understand unix permissions. Proper way to back up to XP is to make a tarball of your $HOME first & then copy it to XP, that way the permissions are preserved. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html