On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:17, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:22, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > hehe. :) That crossed my mind too, but it keeps complaining about the rights > > on the files. Isn't it bad if cause of the copy the file rights are lost? > > yeah, smb just doesn't do permissions in The Unix Way(TM). So it's bad > if you want to just copy everything back and have it work, but it's > probably going to be fine if you want to build a new system and copy the > important /etc files, /home, and /usr/local back in. > > > Also how about the (symbolic)links? Afaik the fat32 doesn't support links > > the way linux has them... > > It'll make two copies of the whole file.
Weird idea here.... Been a long time since I used wsFTP client. But if you did use it to ftp to the linux box and then used wsFTP to tar up and then write the files directly to your box date/time stamps and permissions (as well as links) would be preserved. James > > > > > Best regards, > > Adrian > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jack Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Mandrake Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:51 AM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup > > > > > > > I take it you're trying to tar into a file in the smb partition? Man, I > > > love giving this answer: > > > > > > then don't do that :-) > > > > > > cp -a /etc /mnt/winblows > > > cp -a /var /mnt/winblows > > > rinse and repeat until you've got all the goodies, then rebuild your > > > other box. > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:05, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > > > I finally got to really apply the stuff you guys taught me. :) That > > means > > > > that my hdd on my linux server/firewall is dying and randomly gives a > > > > "Cannot find boot sector" at boot. :( > > > > > > > > I mounted a winblows fat32 partition as smbf on my linux server in an > > > > attempt to backup my linux system there (only backup space at hand for > > the > > > > time). Unfortunatelly I stumbled upon the smbfs 2GB limit problem. I > > don't > > > > have enough local space to backup locally first. I tried using the split > > > > command but I am either too tired or too dumb, but it didn't do at all > > what > > > > expected. So now I am asking myself if I can somehow pass the 2GB smbfs > > > > proble (lots of space on the smbfs partition). Any chances to do that in > > an > > > > elegant way? I heard that I need to patch my kernel to support smbfs > > >2GB, > > > > but that would mean to recompile kernel and restart my server. Since it > > was > > > > a 30 minutes pain to convince it to start last time I cannot afford that > > (it > > > > might not start anymore). :( > > > > > > > > Searched the whole net for a solution on how to split the tar results on > > the > > > > fly as local space on server partitions is about as big as the smbfs > > limit, > > > > so I cannot archive all locally and split after that. No go. No example > > > > which suits my problem. :( > > > > > > > > Please help guys. :( > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Adrian > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Damien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:25 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can confirm this kind of primitive cloning works perfectly. > > > > > All you have to do during full backup is to omit "special" directories > > : > > > > > - /proc > > > > > - /tmp > > > > > - /mnt > > > > > => tar czf everything_on_hda.tar.gz --exclude /tmp --exclude > > > > /proc --exclude > > > > > /mnt / > > > > > > > > > > If your source drive (hda ?) is *very* huge/full, you can consider > > > > spliting > > > > > backup into smaller parts ( < 4Go) to manage archives more easily (and > > > > allow > > > > > network transfer of them from rescue mode in my particular case...) > > > > > > > > > > Dam > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 22:43, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > > > > > > Wow, > > > > > > > > > > > > Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care > > > > > > of it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives u 40Gb > > > > > > nowadays, and > > > > > > tar cf /dev/hdb/root.tar / > > > > > > for i in /usr /var /opt /home /whateverfilesystem > > > > > > do > > > > > > tar cf /mnt/hdb/$i $i > > > > > > done > > > > > > > > > > > > So if hda dies, all u do is replace it, and boot with > > > > > > install disk, rescue mode, create ur new filesystems, > > > > > > and restore from backup drive only the files/directory > > > > > > into new location. > > > > > > then run lilo -r /mnt/hdb/ > > > > > > reboot with new drive. > > > > > > > > > > > > Works everytime for me. > > > > > > > > > > > > I even clone systems this way (primitive, but works!) > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > -- > > > Jack Coates > > > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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