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Re: [BackupPC-users] Make Backup in a Windows Share

2012-05-18 14:35:19
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Make Backup in a Windows Share
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 13:34:39 -0500
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Michael Kolowicz
<michael.kolowicz AT km-f DOT eu> wrote:
> I have installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have configure my fstab
> to mount a windows share as “/mnt/DaSi”.
>
>
>
> In the config.pl I change the TopDir to “/mnt/DaSi” but if I restart my
> BackupPC server they wont started.
>
>
>
> I check it with “backuppc start” and following message come up:
>
> 2012-05-18 19:39:03 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
> /mnt/DaSi/pc and /mnt/DaSi/cpool.  Either these are different file systems,
> or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't
> exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of
> inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these
> possibilities. Quitting...
>
>
>
> What can I do? Is it not possible to write direct to a mounted windows
> share?

No, the filesystem has to support unix style hard links.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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