How does your Mybook connect to your machine? Is it USB, Firewire, or eSATA?
Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com systems administrator INTERA -- 512-425-2006 > _____________________________________________ > From: David Williams [mailto:dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:03 AM > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device > > All, > > Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB > external WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and > which I mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer > version on Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1. > > Once I had setup installed BackupPC 3.1, mounted my backup device using > cifs and restored my configuration files I started up BackupPC only to get > the message: > > "Can't create a test hardlink......." > > And BackupPC would not start :-( Thankfully I have been able to comment > out this check from the BackupPC program and get BackupPC up and running > so that I can restore what I need from my backup drive via the web > interface. > > Under BackupPC 3.0 I never had a problem performing backups and I can > still access the backups that I have from the 3.0 version. There are no > error messages in any of the log files. So, did something change between > 3.0 and 3.1 ? Is there a way I can check manually by creating a hardlink > on the backups partition from the shell ? Sorry, not a Linux guru so not > well up on the commands to do this. > > I did take a look through the archives but nothing jumped out to me as to > the problem. I would assume that since backups were working just fine > with 3.0 that they should be fine in 3.1 and that my external drive is ok? > > Would appreciate any help as I'd like to get my backups up and running > again. > > I did do a df -i and got the following output: > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > //192.168.15.6/public > 116M 1.7M 115M 2% /backups > > Regards, > ____________________________________________ > > > << File: ATT00020.txt >> << File: ATT00023.txt >>
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