Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:05:30 +1000 From: Danny Carroll <fbsd@dannysplace.net> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows XP Backup resetting unix perms. Message-ID: <4C859DEA.7020708@dannysplace.net> In-Reply-To: <20100907020004.GB21193@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4C8597C7.7010002@dannysplace.net> <20100907020004.GB21193@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On 7/09/2010 12:00 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > 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. > Hmmm. Apart from creating a readonly share, is there a way to tell samba to disallow this? Perhaps there is an option to disallow permissions updates altogether. -D
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