Backing up Samba share to USB jump drive?

[L Goodwin]

Thanks, Bill!

--- Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> L Goodwin <xrayv19 at yahoo.com> 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
> 


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