i don't see any mention in tar for windows that it has any knowledge of 
ntfs attributes.

i looked at the tar for windows page:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm

and the online tar manual page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_mono/tar.html

hence i expect a backup of my win2000 server via tar would not be 
useable when restored.  please correct me if i am wrong, i would love it 
to work..

Brock Noland wrote:
> I use tar, gzip and plink (putty backend).
> 
> tar cf - directory | gzip -c | pink -so me -options here
> 
> I have not gotten the z flag to work with windows tar.
> 
> Brock
> 
> On 6/23/05, greg wm <tclug at greatlakedata.com> wrote:
>>hi folks,
>>
>>i'd like to setup backup of my win2000 server onto my linux server.  if
>>i were to simply transfer via samba, the various ntfs attributes would
>>be omitted when writing on the ext3 filesystem, so, are there any
>>programs, preferably open source, that handle this?
>>
>>tia,
>>greg
>>
>>Greg Whitley Mott
>>IT Coordinator
>>NonviolentPeaceforce.org