Thanks for the suggestion re rsync, but using tar has been successful with a NTFS drive many times.
On 2020-11-03 at 09:03, ellanios82 wrote:
> On 11/3/20 2:28 PM, Mick Ab wrote:
>
>> The backup itself is performed using a 'tar -cvpf' type of command
>
> - maybe "rsync" is worth a look
All else being equal I'd agree, but this is backing up to a NTFS
filesystem, which doesn't support the type of ownership and permissions
information that's likely to be available on the source filesystem; in
that scenario, backing up file-to-file (as with rsync) will lose that
metadata, whereas a tarball will preserve it.
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