From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 01:24:20 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 4F17616A400 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:24:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58108.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58108.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04BB713C44B for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 25252 invoked by uid 60001); 10 May 2007 01:24:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=ub0ugRph5PH6stzxel12S4jV+mwxC38N+/uj5plhRpFl2+C14ghmtK2R97890KhK/U7NdNxUaTKREf5SaahzJg2Uxf23Hx1+OcTGOlLcGLJhw+7BkmpAWgjathj/F1G8PB1Fh041mZVeUjEK+9N2tZU6nrnffSHeNJZfC+uJRwg=; X-YMail-OSG: dnv2TsEVM1nqSAiXK1Jm76RGw40dNDpT6dfxTibGrKPJ4kJY0Kl_1uC0Q.kDOcvtGQ-- Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58108.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 May 2007 18:24:19 PDT Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:24:19 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20070509211706.9c9622a8.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <348656.25094.qm@web58108.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 01:24:20 -0000 Thanks, Bill! --- Bill Moran wrote: > L Goodwin wrote: > > > > 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"? > > Sure. > > > 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. > > Every jump drive I've seen comes pre-formatted as > FAT-32. The only > problem with this is you'll lose POSIX file > permissions when you copy > the files. If you're not using the file > permissions, then it isn't > a problem. > > > 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... > > It's your choice. You can leave the drive formatted > FAT-32 for compat > with other OSen, or you can newfs it to a ufs > filesystem to maintain > unix-style file permissions. > > In my experience, jump drives behave just like any > other drive. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com