David Williams wrote at about 09:44:48 -0400 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009: > The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly to > my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come up > with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how I > can reformat it :( There is a web interface for the drive but even with > that there doesn't appear to be a way to re-format the thing. Perhaps this > is not something that can be done, or that WD want people doing, which is > understandable. > A lot of the consumer NAS devices only let you access the device via web uploads/downloads or SAMBA (cifs) - none of which work directly with BackupPC. You really want to be able to access the device with something like NFS or ATA over ethernet.
I have a dns-323 (which is a linux-based NAS) and I was able to hack it to run NFS (after some incompatibility tribulations with ext3 and kernel 2.6.12). This has allowed me to use the NAS device for BackupPC. I had a thread on that about 6 months back. So, if you have a low end (i.e. consumer) NAS, you might want to see whether it is hackable to run NFS. > I mount the drive as follows: > > //192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw, > username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0 > > ____________________________________________________ > David Williams > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de] > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:24 AM > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:32:33AM -0400, David Williams wrote: > > > So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this > means > > I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink check > > will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is > it > > related to the fact that it is formatted to NTFS format ? > > NTFS does support hardlinks. (But thats a now so well-known feature.) So > it might depend on how you mount the drive. > > > Is there a way to format this drive so that it can create hardlinks > (ext3?) > > and can be used for backups again ? It's a 1TB drive and I'd hate to have > > to buy another drive. > > I'm not sure whether you can reformat it. If it's just USB-attached, > then yes, just go ahead. If it's some sort of NAS, it depends on the > device. > > You could always create some huge container file and create an ext3 > filesystem within that. Performance won't be great, but it'll work. > > HTH, > > Tino. > > -- > "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." > > www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de > www.craniosacralzentrum.de > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.44/2044 - Release Date: 04/06/09 > 18:59:00 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
