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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!198.147.221.35!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: Paul Young <phy@xnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backing up FreeBSD Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 08:36:56 +0000 Organization: Virtual Software, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <33460F28.193B@xnet.com> References: <33459548.4273785@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: phy.xnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) To: steve@ojc.cccoes.edu X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38698 Steve wrote: > > Here is my problem. I am running 2.2.1-RELEASE and need a way of > backing up my FreeBSD box. I don't have any backup solution hardware > on the box itself, however i have installed samba. Of course programs > like winzip, etc. don't back up the file attributes that it zips. -- > Is there another way? Or am I stuck with trying to zip the entire > system from FreeBSD and then saving out on my NT server? Someone > mentioned a backup program for FreeBSD.. I can't recall if it was a > FreeBSD ran program or otherwise. > Backing up from a Windows box is full of problems. Windows/Samba does not distinguish a soft link from a real file. This is especially bad if you have any directories softlinked. Also, I had problems with upper case filenames - this is probably because of my backup software (from Iomega). It creates a file list and apparently doesn't preserve the case when it goes to read the file. > Thanks for any help. -- ---------------------------------------------- Paul H. Young - phy@xnet.com, http://www.xnet.com/~phy H:(847) 202-3841, W:(847) 632-5752 ----------------------------------------------