Talking about backups, remember that some files uses extended attributes, like Webpositive bookmarks files, or Peoples files. To preserve them, you have two options:
- do the backup to another drive that uses BeFS as a filesystem.
or:
- compress the files in a Zip file. As far I know, is the only compression method that support the Haiku’s extended attributes. You can use the Zip-o-Matic Tracker addon.