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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!chi From: chi@netcom.com (Curt Hagenlocher) Subject: Re: Want to backup FreeBSD from NT ? Read This! Message-ID: <chiDqpI32.M1r@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <4llg6n$q07@dole.uninett.no> <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> <4m5fr4$82r@espresso.iconcomp.com> Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 03:09:01 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: chi@netcom17.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:104035 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18520 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:9612 miker@iconcomp.com (Hung Michael Nguyen) writes: >In article <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org>, >Martin Ibert <martini@heaven7.snafu.de> wrote: >>Beware, though, that there is no way you will ever get the full >>information from any NTFS partition into a standard *NIX backup >>format. It just doesn't fit. >> >>... >>- multiple data streams (okay, those are rare :-/ ) >Not that rare. If you ever use NT as a Mac fileserver (comes builtin w/ >NTAS), you will be using multiple data streams for the resource and data >forks, and probably for the finderinfo stuff too. As far as I can tell, there is no way to find the names of the different data streams in the file. You have to know the name of the stream to open it, don't you? -- Curt Hagenlocher chi@earthlink.net chi@netcom.com