G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:16:15 +0100 on Monday, June 29, 2020: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Craig Barratt wrote: > > > ... > > Are you running nfs v3 or v4? I have had experience with v3 not working > > reliably with BackupPC (related to buggy lock file behaviour). BackupPC > > does rely on lock files working, so it's definitely not recommended to turn > > locking off. > > ... > > I would go further than that. My feeling is that NFS is not suitable > for something so important as your backups. >
That being said I ran BackupPC successfully for almost a decade using NFS-v3 to store the backups on a small under-powered/under-memory ARM-based NAS. Never had a problem with lock files... _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
