How does your Mybook connect to your machine? Is it USB, Firewire, or eSATA?
Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
systems administrator
INTERA -- 512-425-2006
> _____________________________________________
> From: David Williams [mailto:dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:03 AM
> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
>
> All,
>
> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB
> external WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and
> which I mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer
> version on Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1.
>
> Once I had setup installed BackupPC 3.1, mounted my backup device using
> cifs and restored my configuration files I started up BackupPC only to get
> the message:
>
> "Can't create a test hardlink......."
>
> And BackupPC would not start :-( Thankfully I have been able to comment
> out this check from the BackupPC program and get BackupPC up and running
> so that I can restore what I need from my backup drive via the web
> interface.
>
> Under BackupPC 3.0 I never had a problem performing backups and I can
> still access the backups that I have from the 3.0 version. There are no
> error messages in any of the log files. So, did something change between
> 3.0 and 3.1 ? Is there a way I can check manually by creating a hardlink
> on the backups partition from the shell ? Sorry, not a Linux guru so not
> well up on the commands to do this.
>
> I did take a look through the archives but nothing jumped out to me as to
> the problem. I would assume that since backups were working just fine
> with 3.0 that they should be fine in 3.1 and that my external drive is ok?
>
> Would appreciate any help as I'd like to get my backups up and running
> again.
>
> I did do a df -i and got the following output:
>
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> //192.168.15.6/public
> 116M 1.7M 115M 2% /backups
>
> Regards,
> ____________________________________________
>
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