BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data on a Samba share

2008-04-22 10:59:09
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data on a Samba share
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:58:08 -0500
On 04/22 04:43 , shacky wrote:
> Anyone is using BackupPC with the data directory (var/lib/backuppc) on
> a remote Samba share?

Don't do it.

- If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the hardlinks
  that BackupPC requires for data pooling.

- It's going to be slow. Just buy a big cheap local disk.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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