Here's another round of dumb questions for ya: Can USB jump drives be used to back-up a Samba share? If so, what do I need to do to prepare the USB drive to accept files? Since I don't really need to compress or encrypt, I was thinking about simply copying the entire directory tree using the cp command, instead of using dump, tar, cpio. Will this work, and is it a "good idea"?
The filesystem to be backed up is a single common UFS shared via Samba. All PC users have access to the same set of files (no user-specific directories). The files to be backed up are Word, Excel, PDF, etc. I don't want to buy the drives until I know if it will work and how to do it. Do I need to UFS format the drives? I assume the drive will have to be mounted like any other drive... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
