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.

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