Re: [opensuse] read only status on files copied from linux server to windows 2003

On Saturday 31 March 2007 11:06, Jack Malone wrote:
So what you will find in moving the files back is that nothing will be
as it
was before. I guess I do not understand why it is going to take you a
week to upgrade the server. I would suggest these steps:

1. Have all the new disks purchased and ready to go.
2. Backup all data, tape would be best, you should be doing this
already.
3. Update the bios
4. Install the new disks
5. Restore the data

Your done and should not have taken more then 24 hours.

Another way is to have a second file server you can move all the data
to.

Do not go to Windows, you will hate yourself and life later!!!!!!!!

Mike
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Well for now the windows server is up an running, it has antivirus software
on it ( servers the windows workstations for that) an is running the access
control into the building also ( windows only software ). I was really
meaning a week at the most, I think it would have been less, But I have
other duties an things that comes up during the week an I was allowing time
for that an other things that come up in the weeks time.
I'm also waiting on 10.2 to get here. For now I am going to copy over the
data to another linux machine, which does not have the mirroring raid
system I have on the current linux server. On the backup I am doing that
already just not on tape. I'm backuping up to another harddrive into one
big compressed file on another machine ( disk to disk). This is a much
faster solution then tape backup at this time.

Do not go to Windows, you will hate yourself and life later!!!!!!!!

I have scraped the plan before I got your email message an am going to
another linux machine.
Like I said I have to have a windows server for the antivirus software an
access control into the building ( it controls the locks an alarm system).




Jack

The problem you will find is that the files copied to the Windows server will
loose all permissions and ownership. For example lets say you have a
user sally and here primary group is marketing. She has files all over the
file server. When you copy those files to Windows you loose sally and
marketing. Now to make it even worse lets say she has files like:

rwxrw-r-- sally mrketing myfile

when you pull it back from windows you will loose sally and marketing and
you will have the permissions: rwxrwxrwx.

I strongly suggest you re think the idea of using a Windows server. Depending
on the amount of data, when I was saying 24 hours I was calculating on about
600GB of data. If you only have lets say 50GB of data you can do this in a
single day. Remember while the data is restoring you can be doing other
things. You need to plan for this down time or you will find yourself
spending more time in trying to correct the problem that was caused by
Windows.

Mike
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