[Samba] Maxtor NAS share problem

[Rick Johnson]

Toby Bluhm wrote:

>> Judging by what I see through the web interface, there must be SOME 
>> type of user info stored, but how or where I don't know and can't see.
>>
> 
> I was talking about saving the Linux filesystem info. Do your rsync to 
> the NAS, then do a recursive getfacl,  redirecting the output to a file 
> on the NAS.
> When you do an rsync back from the NAS, correct the owner/perms with 
> setfacl.
> 

Trouble is that I CAN'T do my rsync to the NAS drive because it doesn't 
give me the access privileges I need to write to the NAS. The rsync 
wants to change owner and the NAS won't let it do that.

> Better yet, look into dar - http://dar.linux.free.fr - a tar like backup 
> designed for saving to files on disk. It shouldn't care (much) about the 
> filesystem it's stored on.
> 

Thanks. I'll check it out!

Best Regards,

Rick J.