Per Jessen
Greg Freemyer wrote:
Per Jessen
wrote: I'm helping my neighbour fix his PC, and I want to backup the disk(s) before I re-image it. I've been away from Windows for so long that I forget - is it sufficient to simply rsync everything from NTFS to my backup disk (which won't be using NTFS)?
Many thanks in advance.
I doubt it. You have 2 issues that will likely fail to handle.
- ntfs security acls - ntfs junctions
Ntfs has acls that don't map cleanly to linux acls. (Does rsync even try to address acls?)
As of vista, ms started using junctions to give directories new
names,
but have them available under the old name. A junction functions much like a symbolic link, but it is different. New PCs ship with junctions in use, so it is not an esoteric concern.
Thanks Greg - would you happen to know the correct way of backing up an NTFS filesystem? The system has somehow lost it's \windows\ directory, (I'm assuming <someone> tried to fix things before me) so I intend to back up all the data, then re-image the system from the recovery partition.
For that situation I cheat. I buy a new drive and put it into the pc and re-image it. I then take the old drive and either connect it internally as a data drive or put it in a usb carrier and connect it that way. Then for most users they have only a few folders they really care about, so I just drag and drop those folders from the old drive to the new. For most casual users that works fine. For users with funky acls, etc. I can see it not working. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org