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

2012-05-19 11:08:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Make Backup in a Windows Share
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:06:33 -0500
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:45 AM, MyKey0815
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> Ok - i understand. But how can save my backup files to a windows share? Is 
> there a "workaround" for the not implemented direct way?

Disks are fairly cheap these days.  Why not just add what you need to
the backuppc server or move the ones you have?  It might theoretically
be possible to run NFS on windows and mount that as your archive but I
don't think anyone has mentioned success on this list (although I
believe people have used nfs from small NAS devices).  If your network
is small, you might even run linux as a virtual machine on the windows
system with the large disks if that is the only spare space.
Performance isn't great that way but it might be better than nothing.

> I have heard something about the xfer-mode "archive" but I don´t understand 
> the using.

You can't use 'archive' as your main storage.   It is used to export
copies of backups in compressed tar archive files.   That part could
be written to mapped windows shares, but you still need to first have
a posix-standard filesystem to store in backuppc's hardlinked layout.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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