I've been playing with bsdtar, with a view to using it on my Windows NT server for doing unattended tape backups, before I migrate to Linux. I've a couple of questions:
(1) Can somebody confirm if it handles tape drives well?
(2) bsdtar doesn't seem to restore permissions for extracted files; I get a "can't restore permissions - function not implemented" message. Is there any way to restore file permissions?
Thanks.
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1) I suppose bsdtar cannot write directly to tape, since it does not use the Windows Tape API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/Backup/backup/tape_backup.asp). Of course, you can first create a tar file, and then copy it to tape.
2) Bsdtar cannot handle NT permissions, only read / write attributes.
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I've been playing with bsdtar, with a view to using it on my Windows NT server for doing unattended tape backups, before I migrate to Linux. I've a couple of questions:
(1) Can somebody confirm if it handles tape drives well?
(2) bsdtar doesn't seem to restore permissions for extracted files; I get a "can't restore permissions - function not implemented" message. Is there any way to restore file permissions?
Thanks.
OK, thanks a lot for that. I suppose I'd better forget about it for the moment.
Tony.
1) I suppose bsdtar cannot write directly to tape, since it does not use the Windows Tape API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/Backup/backup/tape_backup.asp). Of course, you can first create a tar file, and then copy it to tape.
2) Bsdtar cannot handle NT permissions, only read / write attributes.