Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:06:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Ralph M. Los" <Ralph@boundariez.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: data backup software for freebsd Message-ID: <20040906215717.H92469@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A939251A2F68@tenacious.boundariez.com> References: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A939251A2F68@tenacious.boundariez.com>
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Sorry to throw this in - but does anyone have any experience with > commercial, Win32-based backup software backing up Samba shares on > FreeBSD? > I have BackupExec running, on a tape library Win2k box, and I have my > file-server a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine running Samba 2.2.8a. > I'm still learning BSD so please bear with my possibly stupid > question... Why does the Win2k box always backup the full share, even > though I have differential backup selected? [Note: other mailing lists removed from CC list.] One guess: you haven't configured Samba to map the Windows permission bits to Unix permission bits. So the backup can't use the archive bits to include only files that have changed. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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