On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:19, Harry Putnam wrote: > Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul Stear wrote: > >> I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs > > > > I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. > > It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed > I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the receiving fs does not > support them? > > note or anyone interested: > (Services for Unix is a free package from MS). Harry, This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even switched on. This is the ls -l on /mnt/network drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 9 14:03 usr
I saw the info about coping the actual file instead of the symlink in man rsync. This raises a couple of questions. 1. If I copy the actual file and in the future need to restore my system from this full backup, what will be the implication of having perhaps multiple copies of some files? 2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? I will change the command line to include another -v and an STDERR to see if this helps with the mail problem. I have noticed that some messages get copied - in the case of one of my mail folders I have951 messages but only 15 are in the backup, some folders are completely empty. I am a little confused if cifs does or does not support symlinks. As a last resort is there any other way for me to to achieve a complete copy of my gentoo system on this network usb storage link? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
