How do you like yours on the whole? Does it use the WD enterprise drive re3?
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com> wrote:
> From: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
> To: "'General list for user discussion, questions and support'"
> <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:38 AM
> It is connect via RJ45 to my router.
>
>
> ____________________________________________________
> David Williams
>
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: Chris Baker [mailto:cbaker AT intera DOT com]
>
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:30 AM
> To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and
> support'
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
>
>
>
> 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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