Les Mikesell wrote: > Ashley Paul James wrote: >> Ronnie >> >> Wow, that worked like a charm. One of three client servers are >> currently >> backing up now, with no 'permission denied' errors. I am pretty >> excited >> and i can now move on to building a trixbox server. >> >> In retrospect the solution you suggested makes sense, my cmd line had >> incorrect syntax. A fellow worker suggested i place the command in >> the >> rc.local file. So the drive will mount upon reboot. >> > > Are you trying to use a smb/cifs mounted filesystem as the archive > space > for backuppc? I wouldn't expect that to work since backuppc needs > to be > able to make hard links to the pool area. Be sure to check your log > files for link errors.
He mentioned the filesystem on the NAS is xfs. Usually people have something like FAT32 on their networked SMB devices and that doesn't work, but I believe that SMB/CIFS can handle hardlinks when the underlying filesystem can too. Or something like that. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
