[DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

I use fsarchiver. The backup is a single very large file that can be restored using the same program. You can even restore a partition to a larger one. Do not backup mounted partitions. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 2019-06-14 10:28, Mark Rousell wrote: Although your notes are all about command line, you might like to add a link for this handy shell extension to your notes: Link Shell Extension Done, thanks. __

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 12/06/2019 22:15, spiralofhope wrote: > Notes: > > https://blog.spiralofhope.com/?p=13539 Nicely structured notes. Although your notes are all about command line, you might like to add a link for this handy shell extension to your notes: Link Shell Extension

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 2019-05-28 15:53, Rick Moen wrote: [1] Last I heard, Microsoft OSes had nothing quite like a symlink, which was one reason why Cygwin was a bit of a kludge. (They may have fixed that; I wouldn't know ... Yes, they are possible. Notes: https://blog.spiralofhope.com/?p=13539 Tested in

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

...on Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:17:44PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > You *could* make a tarball and copy that to NTFS.  Imperfect but no semantic > loss that way Last I checked, --no-xattrs --no-acls --no-selinux still was the default for GNU tar. So if you want to keep any of those, you need

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting Martin Steigerwald (mar...@lichtvoll.de): [tip about the stat(1) system utility:] > At the moment not in all cases all the metadata. Recent kernels have an > extended statx() syscall that AFAIK is not yet fully supported in user > space tools. It will support things like a creation tim

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Rick Moen - 29.05.19, 04:14: > Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): > > I am absolutely astounded by the number of time I've seen *IX > > "admins" at fortune X companies copy a tree to a windows share and > > wonder why it's broken when they try to restore from it. NFS, if not > > done co

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting Mark Rousell (mark.rous...@signal100.com): > As an aside: Windows NT has had symlinks in NTFS since Vista, so about > 12 years. :-) Good to know. Thank you! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting tom (t...@206-212-236-243.static.onlinenw.com): > huh, interesting. I've always just used ext2 on my floppies. still do. Double-check your calendar. It might need new batteries. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 28/05/2019 23:53, Rick Moen wrote: > [1] Last I heard, Microsoft OSes had nothing quite like a symlink, > which was one reason why Cygwin was a bit of a kludge. (They may have > fixed that; I wouldn't know, having avoided running their OSes on my > _won_ machines since Windows for Workground 3.1

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On Tue, 28 May 2019 19:14:25 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): > > > Sorry Rick... I missed that. > > No worries (as our Australian friends say). > > > I am absolutely astounded by the number of time I've seen *IX > > "admins" at fortune X companies copy a

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): > Sorry Rick... I missed that. No worries (as our Australian friends say). > I am absolutely astounded by the number of time I've seen *IX > "admins" at fortune X companies copy a tree to a windows share and > wonder why it's broken when they try to

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 5/28/19 5:43 PM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): You *could* make a tarball and copy that to NTFS.  Imperfect but no semantic loss that way Not intending to complain, but I literally, actually _just now_ said that: I don't know for certain because, frankly

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): > You *could* make a tarball and copy that to NTFS.  Imperfect but no > semantic loss that way Not intending to complain, but I literally, actually _just now_ said that: I don't know for certain because, frankly, NTFS is so unpromising a target fo

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On 5/28/19 3:53 PM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Joel Roth via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): I've been backing up my root ext4 filesystem to ntfs for some time, gettings errors from rsync about failing to copy extended attributes. Will it affect the ability of my devuan OS or any major components to

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Quoting Joel Roth via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > I've been backing up my root ext4 filesystem to ntfs for some time, gettings > errors > from rsync about failing to copy extended attributes. > > Will it affect the ability of my devuan OS or any major > components to function if I lose extended

Re: [DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

On Wednesday 29 May 2019 at 00:11:55, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > I've been backing up my root ext4 filesystem to ntfs for some time, Depending on the purpose of your backup, this may be a poor choice of target file system. > gettings errors from rsync about failing to copy extended att

[DNG] backups from ext4 to ntfs - extended attributes and access control lists

Hi, I've been backing up my root ext4 filesystem to ntfs for some time, gettings errors from rsync about failing to copy extended attributes. Will it affect the ability of my devuan OS or any major components to function if I lose extended attributes or ACLs? One common use seems to be the immu