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)....

I believe Samba actually does support hardlinks, but it's not a  
filesystem. If you have a drive that is formatted as FAT32 for  
instance, you won't get hardlinks, since FAT32 doesn't support  
hardlinks. If your NAS supports NFS mounts, try that. People here  
generally suggest to choose a local/external drive over a NAS: less  
hassle and better performance.

> and do i simply just mount the terasation to /var/lib/backuppc/ ????

Sure.

Nils Breunese.

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