David Williams wrote at about 09:44:48 -0400 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009:
> The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly to
> my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come up
> with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how I
> can reformat it :( There is a web interface for the drive but even with
> that there doesn't appear to be a way to re-format the thing. Perhaps this
> is not something that can be done, or that WD want people doing, which is
> understandable.
>
A lot of the consumer NAS devices only let you access the device via
web uploads/downloads or SAMBA (cifs) - none of which work directly with
BackupPC. You really want to be able to access the device with
something like NFS or ATA over ethernet.
I have a dns-323 (which is a linux-based NAS) and I was able to hack
it to run NFS (after some incompatibility tribulations with ext3 and
kernel 2.6.12). This has allowed me to use the NAS device for
BackupPC. I had a thread on that about 6 months back.
So, if you have a low end (i.e. consumer) NAS, you might want to see
whether it is hackable to run NFS.
> I mount the drive as follows:
>
> //192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw,
> username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0
>
> ____________________________________________________
> David Williams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
>
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:32:33AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>
> > So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this
> means
> > I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink check
> > will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is
> it
> > related to the fact that it is formatted to NTFS format ?
>
> NTFS does support hardlinks. (But thats a now so well-known feature.) So
> it might depend on how you mount the drive.
>
> > Is there a way to format this drive so that it can create hardlinks
> (ext3?)
> > and can be used for backups again ? It's a 1TB drive and I'd hate to have
> > to buy another drive.
>
> I'm not sure whether you can reformat it. If it's just USB-attached,
> then yes, just go ahead. If it's some sort of NAS, it depends on the
> device.
>
> You could always create some huge container file and create an ext3
> filesystem within that. Performance won't be great, but it'll work.
>
> HTH,
>
> Tino.
>
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