I'm not sure what the filesystem is.  I suspect it is NTFS.  I guess
whatever these drives come as.

I did try what Tino suggested and this is what happened:

[root@dtwconsulting backups]# echo hello > testfile
[root@dtwconsulting backups]# ln testfile linkedfile
ln: creating hard link `linkedfile' => `testfile': No such file or directory

So yes, does look like there is a problem.

I have checked my previous backups and don't see any errors though, and I
was able to restore some of the files !

Is there a way that I can reformat this drive to ext3 ?  Is it even possible
to format the drive from linux when it is mounted as cifs ?
____________________________________________________
David Williams


-----Original Message-----
From: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [mailto:nils AT lemonbit DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:51 AM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device

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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