Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Samstag, 10. Mai 2008, Stroller wrote:
> On 10 May 2008, at 07:07, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> >> So. We can use the same web pages, read the same email, why not share
> >> hardware?
> >
> > Because it doesn't make sense, to share the same filesystem for
> > backing up Windows and Linux?
>
> You keep saying this like it's obvious, but don't provide any good
> reason for it.
>
> There's no reason why I shouldn't have a singe external drive
> containing three directories: "My Mac", "Ann's Linux Box", "Bee's
> Windows PC".
>
> I can only assume that you find it inelegant to store files on a
> filesystem which will not handle their metadata - ownership, group,
> permissions in the case of Linux, or the more sophisticated ACLs used
> by Windows XP Pro & 2003.
>
> Just because YOU find it inelegant, doesn't mean that anyone else
> cares. A file is a file, and when recovering from backups most of us
> can drag & drop "My Photos" to the new filesystem and then take
> ownership of the files.
>
> Stroller.

if you tar 'em up you don't even need to worry about the file permission 
capabilities of the underlying fs. Just don't forget the -p switch on 
extraction ;)
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