Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

[John]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> John <john at starfire.mn.org> writes:
> 
> > Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems.  Dump
> > actually separately interprets the filesystem structure.  Consider, for
> > example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted filesystems.
> > Dump is DRAMATICALLY different in its operation than tar, cpio, etc.
> > Since tar and others use the filesystem code, they don't care
> > what the underlying structure might be, BUT, they are also incapable
> > of collecting "foreign" information like SIDs and ACLs.
> 
> This is one of the advantages of the new "BSD tar" (which is the
> standard tar on FreeBSD 5.3); it can pick up some of the extended
> attributes.  

True, but I think it is still a LONG WAYS from being able to back
up and restore an NT Filesystem.  We don't really write to NT
filesystems at all, in the general case.
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John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG