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Subject:    Re: [opensuse]  Re: Backup of NTFS file systems with Linux
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2009-06-14 0:01:49
Message-ID: alpine.LSU.2.00.0906140154570.4094 () nimrodel ! valinor
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On Saturday, 2009-06-13 at 23:06 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:13:54 +0200, Malte Gell wrote:
>
>> My idea was to create a ntfs file system on an external USB harddrive
>> and make a backup of my Vista installation with the tar command. Would
>> be faster that using dd which also clones empty space.
>
> This won't make the system recoverable.  First, tar creates a file, so
> the underlying filesystem doesn't matter.  But tar only knows about *nix
> filesystem permissions as well.

Then, there is the alternative of using a windows native archiving utility 
that knows about ntfs attributes; perhaps winrar or winzip?

Of course, it would only be usefull for data recovery, not system, unless 
I'm mistaken.

On FAT, I used a similar strategy: I had an initial image recovery, using 
windows tools, and then from linux I made a copy of changed files with 
attributes (with "mattrib").

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Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
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