using samba for backups

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> Maybe a dumb question, but now that I have samba servers on all three of my 
> nix boxes with mapped drives on my two windows workstations there's a great 
> temptation brewing in my mind to backup things directly on mapped hard 
> drives.
> 
> Are there any potential pitfalls to this approach, iow are there any 
> compatibility issues that come up if I copy files from a nix box to a 
> windows box and vice versa?

The Windows box FS doesn't support the char that a BSD box does. It
depends on how you like to backup and what you like to backup. If non
of the files and dirs have stange char (like ?) then you prity safe on
this point. If they do then you could always tar them.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/