As I understand it, the windows file system is incapable of properly storing BackupPC data, because of the need to use hardlinks. This means that a windows drive cannot be used for the pool, nor can it be used to accurately back up or clone the pool.
A windows computer could certainly access the backups, by way of the cgi interface. Is there a particular reason why you're interested in saving the backups on a windows machine? Maybe there's another way of doing what you're trying to accomplish. -Rob Jacob wrote: > OK, so, say I were to mount an SMB share using cifs, and have BackupPC go > there? Would that work? Or does it need hardlinks in the actual archive store? > > If I cannot use a Windows computer, can I store it somewhere else on my > computer then, and have the Windows computer access it? Or is that going to > hit the same problem? Essentially, the Windows computer creates redundant > backups of what BackupPC makes using Windows-only *sniff* software. > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:58:11 -0500 > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 07/19 08:36 , Jacob wrote: >> >>> I have set up BackupPC almost to the point of perfection (yay!) except >>> that it doesn't store its backups on a central Windows computer. I'd like >>> it to store all its backups through SMB, if that's possible. >>> >> Can't be done. Windows doesn't do hardlinks in the way that Unix does; and >> BackupPC depends on hardlinks to function. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
