On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:50 PM, rdarwish
<backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> I have tried searching for the answer to this, but could not find it, so
> please do not get mad if the answer is easily located somewhere.
>
> I have installed and configured BackupPC on a Linux (Debian Squeeze) box, and
> it works perfectly, however, my true need for the backup is to have the
> backup actually saved on to a network drive, which is formatted as a HFS+
> drive (Apple Time Capsule). Now, my problem is that when starting BackupPC
> with this location setup, BackupPC complains that hard links are not
> supported by the backup location:
>
> Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /mnt/.cifs/backup/pc and
> /mnt/.cifs/backup/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this
> file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or
> there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full.
> Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting...
>
> Now I know it's the hard link problem, and not a permission issue, because if
> I issue "df -i", I get:
>
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> //frank/torgo/crow/backup 0 0 0 -
> /mnt/.cifs/backup
>
>
> Now, I know that the drive is capable of handling hard links, but I think
> that I need either an option to SAMBA or to mount.cifs to turn on that
> functionality, but I cannot find out which option. I had seen mention of Unix
> Extensions, and "cat /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled" produces 1, so I
> don't really know where else to look for where to put such an option.
Does the device offer nfs as an option? If so, I'd use that instead of cifs.
> Am I going about this in the wrong way? Should I be backing up to this drive
> in a different manner? Right now, $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; but I have tried
> it set to "smb" as well with the same results.
The way you back up the target systems won't make any difference
regarding the need to make hardlinks on the storage archive.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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