L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
