On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:37:05PM -0700, Ashley Paul James wrote: > >>Hello > >>After posting here and resolving my permission issue I am now faced > >>with more problems.....
I suppose, you wrote your whole mail behind the "> >>" quotes? Please don't. I had to look twice for your text... > >>The problem is after the backup is run, BackupPC produces thousands > >>of 'Link Errors' and basically 'locks' the NAS drive. The forums > >>mentioned that your storage device must be able to create > >>Hardlinks. Im not sure mine can anymore. Im running a LaCie 1 TB > >>Ethernet drive. > >>Also, searched these forums and read that people have mounted the > >>their storage drive under /var/lib/backuppc as you 'cannot really' > >>redirect the storage if you install via package, as i have done > >>(Ubuntu 7). This did not work either has i receive permission > >>errors trying to write to the NAS drive. > >>I used this string to mount the drive: > >>smbmount //192.168.10.70/ /var/lib/backuppc -o > >>username=backuppc,password=backuppc,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc. > >>Ive substituted smbmount for 'mount -t cifs' as well. SMB does not support hardlinks. > >>Another solution was to create a symlink between /var/lib/backuppc > >>and the storage device. All this did was create a broken symlink > >>on the NAS drive which cannot be removed. A symlink will work fine > >>if created in my home directory. Is it true that Symlinks cannot be > >>created across different filesystems? In this case ext3 and xfs Symlinks don't care about file system boundaries. A symlink is basically a file which contains the name of another file (which should exist but this is nowhere ensured). > >>This situation is becoming very frustrating as its taken so long > >>trying to resolve this issue. Every close door opens another one. > >> > >>Im about to go out and spend $700CDN on a new NAS drive that will > >>support NFS. But need to know if this will resolve the issue or > >>create the same problems. You need to figure out whether the NAS drive supports hardlinks. > >>Is there a NAS hard drive which runs the ext3 file system? Surely > >>this would work. I wouldn't count on anything regarding cheap NAS drives. > >>What about reinstalling the OS using a different file system? > >>Would it make a difference if I reinstalled BackupPC using source > >>instead. Not the best option but you have the opportunity to > >>redirect the TOPDIR allowing the cpool/pool dirs to follow. Installing from source is not that difficult - simply remove the BackupPC package from your distro (just to be sure). Since you had the distro package installed, all prerequisites of BackupPC should be there. Another (nasty!) idea is to put one large file on the NAS drive and create any file system you like within that, then mount that loopback. Bye, Tino. -- „Es gibt keinen Weg zum Frieden. Der Frieden ist der Weg.” (Mahatma Gandhi) www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
