i have to add to that, if you want to use loopback images, you will be stuck
with file size limits on the cifs mount and will make this pretty difficult
and require use of raid or LVM. you would need ntfs on the cifs mount NOT
fat*
On Dec 29, 2007 10:29 AM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> well, smb is actually just like cifs, in fact cifs is based heavily on smb
> and you could say that cifs is a newer version of smb and be pretty close to
> right.
>
> really, the problem here is the filesystem on the disk, you need a
> filesystem that supports hard links. no windows filesystem
> does(fat,fat32,ntfs), you need one of the *nix filesystems such as
> ext2/3,ufs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs and you need to be able to mount it by nfs at
> the very least and that is not ideal.. really, for network storage, you
> need something like iscsi or ata over ethernet.
>
> im sorry to say it, but i dont think you are going to get that working
> with backuppc short of putting an image file on it and mounting that image
> by loopback.
>
> i can help you with that if you like.
>
>
> On Dec 29, 2007 2:01 AM, Arthur Odekerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Danile,
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response.
> > Are there any alternatives like smb that I can use?
> >
> > Arthur
> >
> >
> > 2007/12/29, Daniel Denson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > you cannot use a CIFS mounted disk to store backuppc data because it
> > > cannot support hardlinks
> > >
> > > Arthur Odekerken wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a weird problem with my setup.
> > > It consists of a SuSE Linux 10.2 distro in combination with a LaCie
> > > ethernet disk mini, which I mounted on /lacie/backup with cifs.
> > > As topdir I setup /lacie/backup for my backups, but I get several
> > > errors:
> > >
> > > 2007-12-28 23:20:36
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>:
> > > mkdir /lacie/backup/pc/
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>/new//fPST/:
> > > Permission denied at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm
> > > line 628
> > > 2007-12-28 23:21:17 Backup failed on
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>(Child
> > > exited prematurely)
> > > 2007-12-28 23:21:17 Running BackupPC_link
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>(pid=8006)
> > > 2007-12-28 23:21:17
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>:
> > > mkdir /lacie/backup/cpool/1/a: Permission denied at
> > > /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 741
> > > 2007-12-28 23:21:17 Finished
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>(BackupPC_link
> > > qsbserver <http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>)
> > > 2007-12-28 23:22:09 User backuppc requested backup of
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>(
> > > qsbserver <http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>)
> > > 2007-12-28 23:22:09 Started full backup on
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>(pid=8038,
> > > share=PST)
> > > 2007-12-28 23:22:26
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>:
> > > mkdir /lacie/backup/pc/
> > > qsbserver<http://10.1.1.100/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=qsbserver>/new//fPST/:
> > > Permission denied at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm
> > > line 628
> > >
> > > When I check permissions several files seem to be created as root
> > > which could explain the errors.
> > > Can anyone help me with this?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Arthur
> > >
> > >
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