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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Subject: Re: Want to backup FreeBSD from NT ? Read This! Date: 27 Apr 1996 15:53:16 +0200 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 16 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <4llg6n$q07@dole.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Morten.Sickel@nrpa.no's message of 24 Apr 1996 15:09:11 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:103550 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18363 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:9484 Beware, though, that there is no way you will ever get the full information from any NTFS partition into a standard *NIX backup format. It just doesn't fit. - ownership as (longish) SID rather than as (shortish) UID/GID - attribute bits - ACLs! There is no limit to the number and size for any file, so you just cannot stuff them into tar headers - multiple data streams (okay, those are rare :-/ ) -- ~~ It's hard to tell the poison from the cure ~~~~ Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, ~~ Harder still to know the reason why--why--why ~ 13589 Berlin-Spandau/Germany ~~ The only thing I really know for sure ~[STING]~ +493037595100, Fax -37595101 ~~ Is that another day, another day's gone by! ~~~ <martini@heaven7.snafu.de> PGP key and Geek code available on my home page <http://www.snafu.de/~martini/>