Peter Valdemar Mørch a écrit : > Enrique Vetere evetere-at-gmail.com |Lists| wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm beginning to use rdiff-backup on mac os x. I'd like to backup to >> an externaly mounded volume (via samba on a remote win xp). >> I'm getting: >> >> Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem at /Volumes/ >> prometeo.local > > Hi there, > > rdiff-backup has a "--no-hard-links" switch to avoid that. > > However, problems with fsync on smb mounts is probably going to kill > you, just as it did me and others. See the thread called: > > rdiff-backup + smbfs = :'( > > See e.g. here for two workarounds: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/FsyncErrorError > > The first one requiring an unauthorized patch to the code, and the > other using another filesystem in a file on the windows mount. > > I know that OS X is FreeBSD underneath, so I don't know exactly what > you'll run into, but that has been my experience on Linux. > > As it is right now, I don't think rdiff-backup works from Linux or > Unix with windows mounts out-of-the-box. Osx can do image disk easily, it's the famous .dmg files, usually used for software installation from the net. But i don't like image disk for backup. If the image file is damaged, all the backup is dead. With a classical backup, you only loose the damaged file.
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