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The past few weeks, I've been using Samba as a filesharing server. However, I eventually wanted to backup my Winows XP machine onto the server, which proved impossible due to the incompatibility of filenames. So, my question is - how can I set up my Debian box so that I can backup Windows XP files? What if I compress the files with tar before backing them up? Or is there a file-sharing server that I can use with Debian that avoids reading the filenames altogether? Thanks!
The past few weeks, I've been using Samba as a filesharing server. However, I eventually wanted to backup my Winows XP machine onto the server, which proved impossible due to the incompatibility of filenames. So, my question is - how can I set up my Debian box so that I can backup Windows XP files? What if I compress the files with tar before backing them up? Or is there a file-sharing server that I can use with Debian that avoids reading the filenames altogether? Thanks!
Please tell more information how incompatible filename occur? And what windows xp file you want to backup? System file or only some document.
You need a great piece of software that will handle the backup flawlessly regardless of filesystem and file names. You can backup any number of ways with it. The program name is backuppc. If you put your distro in your profile, we could advise you on how to use that to install the backuppc software. If it is Debian, apt-get install backuppc will do it just fine.
Please tell more information how incompatible filename occur? And what windows xp file you want to backup? System file or only some document.
Well, I just want flexibility. First of all, I'm having problems with Cyrillic characters. I've been messing with it for a week, and even posting questions on this forum, but nothing seems to work. Also, there's problems with files in which a period or a slash is in the wrong place. It halts the entire backup. All I want to do is store these files on my Linux box, but it won't even let me copy them.
You need a great piece of software that will handle the backup flawlessly regardless of filesystem and file names. You can backup any number of ways with it. The program name is backuppc. If you put your distro in your profile, we could advise you on how to use that to install the backuppc software. If it is Debian, apt-get install backuppc will do it just fine.
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