How best to copy Dietpi-Backup with root folder?

General Discussion
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Hi all

I make a dietpi backup on a ext4 formatted drive on my dietpi PC server and access the drive through windows via SMB. I cannot access the root user’s directory and related files from the backup to make a copy of the backup through SMB, obviosuly due to permissions and I don’t want to give root permissions anyway through this file share.

I have set up rclone to copy the backup folder to Mega, but would like advice on what is the best and safest way to copy the backup folder from the EXT4 drive on the server directly to/through my Windows PC. I assume the simplest would be to use rclone from the server to backup to an SMB location on the windows PC, or is there a sensible way to do this via windows?

thanks

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you can’t do this, as you will lose Linux permissions and sym links. You would need to create an archive beforehand. This can be transferred to a Windows PC

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Excellent idea, I forgot about symlinks too. Thank you so much for your swift response.

Mark