Greg Smith wrote: > Thanks to all for the replies. I've read all the backuppc docs and > realized that hard links were an integral part of the design so I > thought the answer to my question would be "no" but thought I'd > ask. Since the principle reason for using hardlinks in backuppc is > to use space more efficently, I was hoping that there was some hack > (e.g., setting HardLinkMax to 1) that would work but use more disk > space. > > There is no h/w interface into the NAS other than two 1GB network > links (no iSCSI) and I don't think (I've got a call into the tech > support to confirm) that it supports NFS. The only way that I know > of mounting the device is via samba/cifs. Since both samba & cifs > support hard links it might be the device does too with some > undocumented setting, we'll see what tech support has to say.
I'm pretty sure that the samba/cifs kind of hard links do not work with BackupPC. I don't know what's the difference exactly, but I have only heard people telling they couldn't get it to work. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
