Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not necessary
"those small ones" - using this Drobo
B800fs<http://www.drobo.com/products/business/b800fs/index.php>.
So NFS would be a protocol-based option for the data pool? Still, iSCSI
would be best if not DAS?
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Bryan Keadle (.net)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can BackupPC's data pool (/var/lib/BackupPC) be a CIFS mount, or must it
> be
> > a block device? I'm thinking it requires a block device due to the
> > hardlinks/inodes BackupPC depends on, and I'm not sure that a
> cifs-mounted
> > folder gives you that ability.
>
> I think CIFS (as unix extensions to SMB) technically handles hardlinks
> when the source system is unix/linux and the underlying filesystem
> supports them. However I wouldn't expect this capability to be very
> well tested, because in that scenario everyone would use NFS anyway.
> And in the backuppc case it would be much more sensible to just run
> the program on the box with the drives. If you are thinking of one of
> those small NAS devices that don't support NFS, I wouldn't count on
> it.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
>
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