SOLVED format a drive for backup on TrueNAS to be able to read from Windows

[jordanthompson]

I want to use a removeable local SATA hard drive as backup using rsync. I want to be able to:

1. Preserve user, group, archive, etc. in case I need to recover files and also use this information for backup verification
2. Later be able to mount and read this disk from a Windows computer (ignoring the Unix attributes above)

I am using this for backing up files:

Code:

rsync --partial --human-readable --verbose --archive --out-format="%n" --no-compress --stats --checksum --owner --group --progress [SOURCE] [DESTINATION]

I have tried ntfs, but it knows nothing about Unix attributes and all files are owned by root/wheel

I am even open to use a third party app to mount the drive on the Windows machine. As long as I can see the file names and access their contents, I don't care about any of the file attributes.

Assuming this is possible, what format should I use?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

It might be possible with OpenZFS for Windows.

Windows - OpenZFS on OS X

openzfsonosx.org

Other than that - sorry, no chance. The only filesystem the various Unix operating systems and Windows have in common until ZFS becomes fully functional are the variants of FAT. FAT32, ExFAT, ...