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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!not-for-mail From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) 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! Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Date: 1 May 1996 15:12:41 +0200 Organization: La Calandre Infortunee Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4m7o09$17g@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <uf20l97oz6.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:104218 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18567 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:9654 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. '' Maybe that's true for the current implementation of tar for Windows NT, but it certainly can be done. In the OS/2 version of tar there's room for EA's and IBM LanServer ACL's, both of which are variable length. The tar format is compatible with Unix tar, although the Unix versions of course cannot extract LanServer ACL's and EA's: they're ignored. Maybe it's a good idea to look at the sources of tar for OS/2 and port it to NT. For NT's HPFS it might be really easy. Regards, Geert -- E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl *** As far as we know, there have not been *** Phone: +31-53-4303054 ** any undetected failures in our software. **