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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: |
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>>sync2cd |
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>>It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. |
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>>And it does store the permission and ownership information along with |
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>>the files. |
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> That's because it stores files in an archive, |
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Nope ;-) |
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It stores the files as-is, in the same hierarchy as the source tree, and |
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the permission and ownership info in a separate file in the directory |
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".sync2cd" at the root of the CD/DVD. |
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This means that if you restore a file "by hand" with cp, you don't |
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restore the metadata. But if you need it, you can restore it with |
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sync2cd (which incidentally will tell you on which medium the file is |
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stored, in the case of multi-CD backups) and the metadata is restored. |
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> There's a choice to be made, use an archive for 100% |
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> backups, or store files individually for simple copying, you can't have |
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> both. |
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There's still the solution "individual files with separate metadata". |
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> but there are so many backup systems out there, and everyone has |
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> different needs. |
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True. That's why I have written sync2cd in the first place :-) |
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-- Remy |
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Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |
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