On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:54:34 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote: > 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?
GNU tar provides a "--listed-incremental" parameter but as I never do incremental nor differential backups (for my $HOME I prefer to stick to normal/full copies) I can't tell you how this works but Google can be of much help here :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jrnmet$kvm$2...@dough.gmane.org
