Re: Samba Backup Tool Preserving File Owner/Group/Permissions
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:41 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have access to a remote Samba storage device that I don't have
> a control over the uploaded file owner/group/permissions. Hence,
> once I upload my stuff to the remote end via rsync over Samba, I
> lose all my file attributes. Could you recommend any backup tool
> that provides a solution for such scenarios? That is, is there
> any backup tools that would preserve the file attributes in a
> secondary place? Or is there any other alternate path that you
> can recommend me to take?
Perhaps if you tar (& gzip) your files before sending to your Samba
storage. (man tar).
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