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?