Tino Schwarze wrote at about 00:54:38 +0100 on Thursday, November 27, 2008: > > > What I am not sure about is whether there is any other "magic" hiding > > > in the ntfs filesystem that would need to be recovered to give a full > > > restore. > > > > as far as i know, there are so called streams, which allow to store file > > metadata in the filesystem > > Hm, they should be roughly equivalent to MacOS resource forks (I'm not > sure they're still being used in MacOS X). > > There seem to be a lot more NTFS special features not widely known: > http://debian-interix.net/ntfsbackup/ > Very interesting link. Also interesting that the backup program he is writing is also in Perl. I wrote Martin (the author of the program) a note suggesting the (mutual) benefits of looking at BackupPC.
It seems to me like a shame that there hasn't been more interest and effort in getting BackupPC working better on Windoze because now it really is only useful for limited user file backups. Without proper treatment of the registry, ACLs, and all the other details of NTFS, I wouldn't want to rely on BackupPC to restore system-level files or even executable programs. This means that I still need to do occasional full disk clones which typically require manual intervention (unless you buy commercial software) and take up lots of space since they don't offer the pooling functionality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
