Thanks for the suggestion re rsync, but using tar has been successful with a NTFS drive many times. On 3 Nov 2020 14:11, "The Wanderer" <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2020-11-03 at 09:03, ellanios82 wrote: > > > On 11/3/20 2:28 PM, Mick Ab wrote: > > > >> The backup itself is performed using a 'tar -cvpf' type of command > > > > - maybe "rsync" is worth a look > > All else being equal I'd agree, but this is backing up to a NTFS > filesystem, which doesn't support the type of ownership and permissions > information that's likely to be available on the source filesystem; in > that scenario, backing up file-to-file (as with rsync) will lose that > metadata, whereas a tarball will preserve it. > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
