Hi. I know that this is the Samba list, however I searched the net and asked the below question on MS mailing lists, but I didn't got any usefull info, so: Does anyone know of any free tool that can be used from WinXP command line to backup files from NTFS 5 volumes paths (eg. \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1) to a file on a diferent disk or to a stream. The specific of my problem is that I realy need to backup NTFS ACL-s, extendent attributes and posibly alternate data streams. The ntbackup.exe has two problems: - it can't operate on volume paths (\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\Harddisk1) - can't be used in NON-interactive mode during restore Is it realy posible that there isn't a tool like tar or cpio for WinXP that support the NTFS specifics? Regards, Dezo
Hi Damire,>Is it realy posible that there isn't a tool like tar >or cpio for WinXP that support the NTFS specifics?I'm actually prototyping one such tool in VB. It outputs a vxdump-compatible stream which can be redirected anywhere. It's about a month and a half off. But there is a cost to it - it needs to runas SYSTEM to be able to pick all extended attributes. There is a good tar in "GNU-Win II" which I'm using in the meanwhile but of course it can't tell ACLS from alternate data streams or else I wouldn't bother writing my own. smbtar (included in Samba) does the same albeit at an irritatingly low speed. Cheers Dragan ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005