Tino Schwarze wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>> 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......."
>
> I'm not sure whether CIFS supports hardlinks.

I believe CIFS does, but the underlying file system may not. What is  
the file system on the drive? It might be that hardlinks never worked  
and that the check was only added in 3.1.

Nils Breunese.

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