I use NFS on a LAN NAS as my backup disk.
Works fine.


On 05/19/2012 08:06 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>


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