Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: >>sync2cd >> >>It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. >> >>And it does store the permission and ownership information along with >>the files. > > That's because it stores files in an archive,
Nope ;-) It stores the files as-is, in the same hierarchy as the source tree, and the permission and ownership info in a separate file in the directory ".sync2cd" at the root of the CD/DVD. This means that if you restore a file "by hand" with cp, you don't restore the metadata. But if you need it, you can restore it with sync2cd (which incidentally will tell you on which medium the file is stored, in the case of multi-CD backups) and the metadata is restored. > There's a choice to be made, use an archive for 100% > backups, or store files individually for simple copying, you can't have > both. There's still the solution "individual files with separate metadata". > but there are so many backup systems out there, and everyone has > different needs. True. That's why I have written sync2cd in the first place :-) -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
