Hey, First of all, thanks to everyone involved for life-saver software.
I've a bit of a grief when restoring to WinXX shares (both over smb before and rsync now), and I've failed to find enough information to understand how BackupPC goes about that. When restoring data to a NTFS filesystem I've encountered permission issues which either a) prevented the user from accessing his/her data b) the restore process seemed to have locked itself from writing down the tree by changing permissions of a parent folder so that it couldn't write anything below that folder Those weren't critical issues since I could still get at the data in the end, but it was far from ideal. To note is that on both of the above the underlying OS was reinstalled from scratch, so I'm suspecting that user ID mismatch might be the reason, but I've failed to confirm that. I'm now using a cygwin+ssh+rsync approach to back up WinXX machines, as it seemed a bit more secure and "behind the scenes" as opposed to just sharing whatever was needed over CIFS. I've rougly followed the guide in [1]. Is rsync indeed the recommended solution for WinXX backups? Is there something I've missed re: permissions that I should've taken care of? Or is it simply that the "clean OS" case is crippled by mismatched user IDs? Maybe using a Samba domain to store users' credentials would help? [1] http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html Best, -- Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
