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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!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.us.world.net!news.inc.net!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!espresso.iconcomp.com!not-for-mail From: miker@iconcomp.com (Hung Michael Nguyen) 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: 30 Apr 1996 11:41:08 -0500 Organization: ICON Computing Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4m5fr4$82r@espresso.iconcomp.com> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <4llg6n$q07@dole.uninett.no> <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.251.58.80 X-RTcode: e9e73a0c31579bfc408641c3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:103646 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18393 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:9528 In article <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org>, Martin Ibert <martini@heaven7.snafu.de> wrote: >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. > >... >- multiple data streams (okay, those are rare :-/ ) Not that rare. If you ever use NT as a Mac fileserver (comes builtin w/ NTAS), you will be using multiple data streams for the resource and data forks, and probably for the finderinfo stuff too. Maybe you could store a lot of the info in the same way that CAP stores Mac files on a standard Unix filesystem, e.g. w/ special file and directory naming conventions (e.g. a .resource subdirectory to contain the resource forks). I guess all that would be required would be a program to map from NTFS to these special files and vice versa. Solaris 2.5 also has ACLs, I think, so there must be a Unix backup format that can deal w/ it, though I suspect it's just the ufsdump format. Mike. -- ***************************************************************************** * Hung Michael Nguyen, ICON Computing, Inc. email: miker@iconcomp.com * *****************************************************************************