From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 01:10:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3182316A400 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C50AF13C457 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 431 invoked by uid 60001); 10 May 2007 01:10:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=foGdz3suXGreBofUNKrwRJYwNrEaYHKpiBPvP1m+nxipb3vxYA9uEUIPn34YUn/Qgxft0No+yhdoQFE9V4vVakVOEJOf0MHcJoLJMbeAZM/8CFMoUU1fLKa0k2VOSbsRdUC3N5Wf14huYwmkT7DzbdmGacUtad2XRqPWWslNrxo=; X-YMail-OSG: foKF6O0VM1n2JMKkYzwhVqV9lPjEK8PH7Ym_SMK0U94wriSxcX6IyCHJG8hWbkavS4zK.XUN_A1Kvv37aJFdnX2QMFek33uyT05k1vE5mQXIwcf_GrWwYx0- Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 May 2007 18:10:53 PDT Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:10:53 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <965182.90754.qm@web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Subject: Backing up Samba share to USB jump drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 01:10:55 -0000 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