On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:41:20PM +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data
> > with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange
> > data with arbitrary other systems (TVs, MediaPlayers) other restrictions
> > may come into play.
>
> I would not share same drive for backing up a Linux system on a ntfs drive
> because ntfs doesn't handle permissions the same way as ext4 does. Permission
> are not so much critical for music and videos but it surely messed up my dev
> environment when I tried restore my backup from ntfs drive.
but if you HAVE TO use a NTFS drive, do the backup as a tar file which is
written to the NTFS drive. This should preserve ownership and permissions.
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