Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 02:37:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> To: "James F. Schmidt" <jschmidt@cessys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba & Network Backup Message-ID: <199705020037.CAA24241@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: "James F. Schmidt"'s message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:52:09 -0500 References: <01BC54BD.D5DB1C30@ces01.cessys.com>
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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.
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