BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device

2009-04-07 16:07:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:02:01 -0400
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 15:56:22 +0200 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009:
 > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
 > > 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.
 > > 
 > > I mount the drive as follows:
 > > 
 > > //192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw,
 > > username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0
 > 
 > Can you mount it via NFS? But I suppose, the cifs implementation of the
 > drive (some kind of Windows CE?) does not support hardlinks?
cifs is SAMBA and doesn't support hardlinks (at least in my experience).

 > 
 > Tino.
 > 
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 > 
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