On 2009/06/14 02:01 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
On Saturday, 2009-06-13 at 23:06 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:13:54 +0200, Malte Gell wrote:
My idea was to create a ntfs file system on an external USB harddrive and make a backup of my Vista installation with the tar command. Would be faster that using dd which also clones empty space.
This won't make the system recoverable. First, tar creates a file, so the underlying filesystem doesn't matter. But tar only knows about *nix filesystem permissions as well.
Then, there is the alternative of using a windows native archiving utility that knows about ntfs attributes; perhaps winrar or winzip?
Of course, it would only be usefull for data recovery, not system, unless I'm mistaken.
I run openSUSE and OS/2 24/7, and trade files virtually continuously over LANMAN, Peer, CIFS & Samba, usually via mc and/or FC/2 and/or (g)zip and/or tar. Based on the apparent filesystem agnostic behavior I've seen, I'd expect other archivers to behave similarly, which is to take whatever file attributes are found, tuck them in the archives with the files and directories, and restore according to whatever attributes are supported by the target filesystem. I suspect the only significant difference between Winrar and rar/unrar for Linux is the GUI face worn by Winrar, which would mean rar for Linux should be able to do the right job archiving off NTFS via Linux boot. -- "Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." Proverbs 23:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org