Actually, you can use hard links on the samba mount, it's only symbolic
links that are not supported.
Bernhard
On 10/17/2010 10:49 AM, henri wrote:
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3. symlinks and samba
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My destination for the backup happens to be a mounted samba drive which lacks
support of symbolic links. These occur in some situations of my source to be
backed up.
Is there a standard way to deal with this situation?
(I think none of rsync's options satisfactorily handle this particular case: I
would like to reproduce the exact same state from my backup. --links: With the
target filesystem's lack of support for symbolic links, simple copying is not
available.
--copy-links: Collapsing of links is not the same as keeping them verbatim)
Another issue with backing up to a samba drive may be that via you issues with
generating hard-links in order reduce the disk usage. I am under the impression
that hard-links are not supported with a remote file system mounted via samba.
However, I could be mistaken.
I suggest one possibility is running LBackup in pull mode on the system which
has the volume locally available. The file system of the backup drive will need
to support hard links in order to preserve space.
This may be a good question for the rsync mailing list. LBackup currently has
no support for backing up to remote file systems unless you pull them to the
file system or if you push or pull a image which is locally mounted for the
backup. The following links may be helpful :
- http://www.lbackup.org/synchronizing_disk_images_between_machines
- http://www.lbackup.org/network_backup_strategies
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