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I have installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have configure my fstab to mount a windows share as “/mnt/DaSi”.

In the config.pl I change the TopDir to “/mnt/DaSi” but if I restart my BackupPC server they wont started.

I check it with “backuppc start” and following message come up:
2012-05-18 19:39:03 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /mnt/DaSi/pc and /mnt/DaSi/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting...

What can I do? Is it not possible to write direct to a mounted windows share?

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Michael Kolowicz
<michael.kolowicz < at > km-f.eu> wrote:
I have installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have configure my fstab
to mount a windows share as “/mnt/DaSi”.

You've mounted a file system that doesn't support hard links. You'll
need to use something like EXT3/4, XFS, JFS, etc.

See the asterisk marked section below.

I check it with “backuppc start” and following message come up:

2012-05-18 19:39:03 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
/mnt/DaSi/pc and /mnt/DaSi/cpool.  Either these are different file systems,
***or this file system doesn't support hardlinks***, or these directories don't
exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of
inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these
possibilities. Quitting...


Richard

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Michael Kolowicz
<michael.kolowicz < at > km-f.eu> wrote:
I have installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have configure my fstab
to mount a windows share as “/mnt/DaSi”.



In the config.pl I change the TopDir to “/mnt/DaSi” but if I restart my
BackupPC server they wont started.



I check it with “backuppc start” and following message come up:

2012-05-18 19:39:03 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
/mnt/DaSi/pc and /mnt/DaSi/cpool.  Either these are different file systems,
or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't
exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of
inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these
possibilities. Quitting...



What can I do? Is it not possible to write direct to a mounted windows
share?

No, the filesystem has to support unix style hard links.

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Ok - i understand. But how can save my backup files to a windows share? Is there a "workaround" for the not implemented direct way?

I have heard something about the xfer-mode "archive" but I don´t understand the using.

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:45 AM, MyKey0815
<backuppc-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote:
Ok - i understand. But how can save my backup files to a windows share? Is there a "workaround" for the not implemented direct way?

Disks are fairly cheap these days. Why not just add what you need to
the backuppc server or move the ones you have? It might theoretically
be possible to run NFS on windows and mount that as your archive but I
don't think anyone has mentioned success on this list (although I
believe people have used nfs from small NAS devices). If your network
is small, you might even run linux as a virtual machine on the windows
system with the large disks if that is the only spare space.
Performance isn't great that way but it might be better than nothing.

I have heard something about the xfer-mode "archive" but I don´t understand the using.

You can't use 'archive' as your main storage. It is used to export
copies of backups in compressed tar archive files. That part could
be written to mapped windows shares, but you still need to first have
a posix-standard filesystem to store in backuppc's hardlinked layout.

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I use NFS on a LAN NAS as my backup disk.
Works fine.


On 05/19/2012 08:06 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:45 AM, MyKey0815
<backuppc-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote:
Ok - i understand. But how can save my backup files to a windows share? Is there a "workaround" for the not implemented direct way?
Disks are fairly cheap these days. Why not just add what you need to
the backuppc server or move the ones you have? It might theoretically
be possible to run NFS on windows and mount that as your archive but I
don't think anyone has mentioned success on this list (although I
believe people have used nfs from small NAS devices). If your network
is small, you might even run linux as a virtual machine on the windows
system with the large disks if that is the only spare space.
Performance isn't great that way but it might be better than nothing.

I have heard something about the xfer-mode "archive" but I don´t understand the using.
You can't use 'archive' as your main storage. It is used to export
copies of backups in compressed tar archive files. That part could
be written to mapped windows shares, but you still need to first have
a posix-standard filesystem to store in backuppc's hardlinked layout.



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On 05/19 08:25 , Norman Goldstein wrote:
I use NFS on a LAN NAS as my backup disk.
Works fine.

I've had NAS storage imposed on me from above. It works, but performance
sucks and it's prone to more failure modes than local storage.

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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
<chrome < at > real-time.com> wrote:
On 05/19 08:25 , Norman Goldstein wrote:
I use NFS on a LAN NAS as my backup disk.
Works fine.

I've had NAS storage imposed on me from above. It works, but performance
sucks and it's prone to more failure modes than local storage.

Has anyone tried this with the NFS support in windows? In some
versions it was bundled in something called 'services for unix'. I
never tried it and don't know how well it would handle backuppc's
hardlinks.

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