On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:30 -0400, Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already
> read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports
> hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs
> does not support hardlinks (as far as i know) so i cannot mount the
> NAS as a smb/cifs share. so i have two questions:
> 
> in what filesystem should i mount the terastation??? (assuming that
> filesystem is supported by the terastation)....
> and do i simply just mount the terasation to /var/lib/backuppc/ ????

Yes you can mount it as /var/lib/backuppc

i guess you are limited to what network filesystems it supports. if it
support SAN style mounts i would go for that. iscsi or similar.  if it
only support filesystems, go for a a cluster filesystem. and if it only
suport smb and nfs you are left with only nfs as the possible choise.

now nfs works just fine, but it does not scale very well. so you might
have to experiment with how many backups you can simultanusly run at a
given time. 

kind regards
Ronny Aasen






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