In my case, this WD drive is painfully slow and only backs up at a rate of 2MB/sec and a full back up takes about 15 hours :( Not sure why this is so slow, maybe that's just what happens when backing up to a cifs mount? Don't know.
The WD drive is formatted as a NTFS partition (if I remember correctly). Wish there was a way to format is a linux partition but I don't think there is.
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Dave Williams
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB, NAS and Backuppc
From: Ronnie Gilkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, March 20, 2008 12:12 pm
To: Ashley Paul James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[email protected]
Ashley Paul James wrote:Hi all,
I just signed on the mailing list, so hello to all.
I've been battling with an issue for over a week now, so I am pretty exhausted from doing the same thing everyday. Its for a client so they need a backup done.It could be a simple fix, something I have missed after looking at the same problem day in/day out. Im hoping some person out there can help me.
First of the backupPC server is a vmdk running on ESX, though the fact that its ESX should not matter.The backupserver is on a private 192 network along with 3 clients using a 2nd interface.The NAS drive is a LaCie Big Ethernet Disk (1T B) with a 192.168.10.x IP with a username and share name call backuppc.SMB is being used to connect to the share as the LaCie will only use SMB for linux. (CIFS to)The NAS drive is formatted as xfs and cannot be changed.To connect to the GUI I run a ssh tunnel.
I have mounted the NAS drive using the below cmd in fstab on the backupserver.
//192.168.10.x/backuppc /mnt/net-storage smbfs rw,uid=105,umask=666,username=backuppc,password=backuppc,auto 0 0
The drive mounts perfectly.I have tried it with out the uid and umask and it works fine. (I added these in as a last effort).
The basic trouble is BackupPC cannot write to the NAS drive as user backup pc. You cannot run 'chown' any files on the NAS drive.
I have su'd to backuppc and ran the ./BackupPC_dump -v -f 192.168.10.x but receive a 'permission denied' error on creating the file structure on the NAS drive.Obviously you receive a similar error when you run a backup from the GUII have also added backuppc to the sudo file and ran the above cmd as sudo. An error is produced informing that you must 'su backupppc' to run it.When you cd to the NAS drive you cannot create a file as user backuppc, unless you sudo backuppc first.As root you can create files on the NASAll the files on the NAS drive are owned by root.user and cannot be changed.
My research into this matter has not present many options.
Thanks all
