Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:10:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Ralph M. Los" <Ralph@boundariez.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: data backup software for freebsd Message-ID: <20040907060212.M94314@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A939251A2F69@tenacious.boundariez.com> References: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A939251A2F69@tenacious.boundariez.com>
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Ralph M. Los wrote: > From: Warren Block [mailto:wblock@wonkity.com] > > 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 - Yes! Ok, so how? [Format recovered--please don't top-post, as it makes replying difficult. It's also customary to include questions@freebsd.org in the CC list for threads that originated there, so followups make it into the archives.] These are settings in the smb.conf file. I don't recall the exact ones, but the Samba documentation has information on it. Check either samba.org or the local documentation, and SWAT probably has a convenient link to it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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