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.
>>
>>
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