[Samba] Backup

[Nathan Lutchansky]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:09:48PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  >>  On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Szilard wrote:
>  >>  > Hello,
>  >>  > anyone knows how to back up a unix/linux box to w2k ?
>  >>  > On the unix/linux box samba runs, but the w2k backup 
>  >>  > wants to follow the softlinks. So it runs into infinite cycles.
>  >>  > Is there a way to avoid this?
> 
>  >>  On the Unix box, use tar to make an archive of everything you want to back
>  >>  
>  >>  up.  Then use the Win2k box to archive the tar file.  -Nathan
> 
> If you are using ACLs, you just lost them.

Good point.  This utility keeps them, at least with Linux ACLs:

http://acl.bestbits.at/star.html

-Nathan

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