>  - 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.

And connecting the external hard drive to a USB 2.0 port of the server
formatting it to ext3?
I cannot add another local disk because there is no more space left in
the rack cabinet.

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