[K12OSN] NAS Backup
Sudev Barar
sudev at mantraonline.com
Fri Mar 5 23:30:02 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 20:38, Barry Solof wrote:
> We've played with the standard rsync and Netware quite a bit. The
> bottom line is that you can sync files from Netware to Linux but all you
> get is the files. You lose Netware ownerships and permissions.
>
> If your goal is to move some files and directories, this is fine. But
> if you want to use these files as a substitute Netware backup it leaves
> a lot to be desired. After a server crash you'd be able to restore the
> files but would have to recreate each directory and file ownership by hand.
>
> Also, the latest version of Netware come with an rsync nlm. This
> version of rsync will maintain permissions during a Netware to Netware
> copy. We use it each night to sync two Netware servers and it works
> nicely. But I don't know if it can keep Netware permissions if you sync
> the files to linux.
That is a new perspective. Thanks for things to watch out.
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Sudev Barar
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