Hello, I just like to report back that I did a preliminary test backing up to a NTFS external drive via Tuxera NTFS, but I have to set in the configuration file:
disable_acl_preservation="YES" Accessing the backed up files on a Windows XP system seemed to work, too. However, the relative links set up by the dated links post script did not, even after plugging the drive back on a Mac. Hope this is useful for someone. On 26 July 2012 01:20, henri <shus...@connect.homeunix.com> wrote: >> How well does lbackup support NTFS filesystems either a source or >> destination? It would be nice if I can backup to a NTFS formatted >> external hard drive via NTFS-3G on my Mac, so that the backup can be >> easily restored on Windows machines, too. > > Officially, the only support is to use a disk image as the destination. > > I am under the impression that on Windows there are tools which are able to > read HFS+ disks. I do not have experience using these. > > To date I have not tried to get LBackup running under Cygwin. There have been > a number of people discussing this in the past but no one has every come back > to say if it worked, what level of success they had or details regarding any > issues they encountered. > > If you are backing up an NTFS disk (on a Mac OS X based system or via SSH) > that would probably work. Again, it is not officially supported. Try it out > and see what happens. If there are problems report them so that they can be > investigated or for future reference. If you have success then other people > may find the information useful. > > The main thing is to test is that any required meta-data is preserved. Also, > if you are after the space saving hard links it would be worth checking that > they are enabled. > > There are ways to write to an NTFS formatted disk on OS X and LINUX. Again no > official support. However, try it and report back. > > Others on the list may be able to provide their information regarding their > experiences. Possibly some of the people who have expressed an interest in > this in the past? > > If you require further assistance or have questions then please reply. > > Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ lbackup-discussion mailing list http://www.lbackup.org Change options or unsubscribe : http://lbackup.org/mailing_lists
