Re: Samba Backup Tool Preserving File Owner/Group/Permissions
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:09:04 +0100, keith writes:
> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:41 +0300, Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
>> 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).
In such a case, AFAIK, I won't be able to take benefit of
incremental backups and I will need to tar+cp the whole disk
everytime I want to take a backup. Am I mistaken?
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