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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net>
To: "James F. Schmidt" <jschmidt@cessys.com>
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In-reply-to: "James F. Schmidt"'s message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:52:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Samba & Network Backup
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(Please fix your line-length when mailing.  Thanks.) 

> We have installed Samba with a share of the entire FreeBSD drive
> e.g.: "/". I can browse the Samba share with no problems and would
> like to use an NT workstation as the primary means of backing up the
> FreeBSD installation with our DAT backup drive over the local
> network.
> 
> Although this all works fine, if I ever had to restore files, would
> there be any file translation issues like with binaries and file
> attributes?

I'd probably try to log all file-permissions to a separate file, too.
A ls -lR / > /root/permissions before backup should do the trick.  (If
everything go away, you at least know what they were, and can convert
back with a little trouble.)

Eivind.