On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:09:04 +0100, keith writes: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:41 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote: >> I have access to a remote Samba storage device that I don't have >> a control over the uploaded file owner/group/permissions. Hence, >> once I upload my stuff to the remote end via rsync over Samba, I >> lose all my file attributes. Could you recommend any backup tool >> that provides a solution for such scenarios? That is, is there >> any backup tools that would preserve the file attributes in a >> secondary place? Or is there any other alternate path that you >> can recommend me to take? > > Perhaps if you tar (& gzip) your files before sending to your Samba > storage. (man tar).
In such a case, AFAIK, I won't be able to take benefit of incremental backups and I will need to tar+cp the whole disk everytime I want to take a backup. Am I mistaken? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehpdndwl....@alamut.ozun.int
