On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:39:19AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: > > Today I decided to make a backup of some of my unix data to an XP > machine in preparation for a migration. > I set windows XP backup running and when it started backing up files in > my home directory I noticed that it set u-x permissions on all of the > files. > Directories are unaffected. > > If I use XP's security dialog to set the permissions back, they are > applied OK. > > Has anyone seen this behaviour before? >
Yeah, it does that because it doesn't understand unix permissions. Proper way to back up to XP is to make a tarball of your $HOME first & then copy it to XP, that way the permissions are preserved. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
