Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Danny Carroll <fbsd@dannysplace.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows XP Backup resetting unix perms. Message-ID: <20100907020004.GB21193@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C8597C7.7010002@dannysplace.net> References: <4C8597C7.7010002@dannysplace.net>
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:39:19AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: > > Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP > machine in preparation for a migration. > I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in > my home directory I noticed that it set u-x permissions on all of the > files. > Directories are unaffected. > > If I use XP's security dialog to set the permissions back, they are > applied OK. > > Has anyone seen this behaviour before? > Yeah, it does that because it doesn't understand unix permissions. Proper way to back up to XP is to make a tarball of your $HOME first & then copy it to XP, that way the permissions are preserved. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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