Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:43:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> "Deboo ^" <knowledgeful@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very
>> simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the
>> files in my home dir to the windows partition as well as mirror it to
>> a remote ftp server using lftp.
> 
> You will loose permissions on the files if you copy them to a windows
> partition. You should use tar or backup to a proper filesystem.

rdiff-backup has an alternative means for storing metadata in case you
have a file system that doesn't allow Linux metadata (or have a
non-root user ID on the backup machine so you can't store metadata as
normal Linux metadata).

> Regards,
> Andrei