This is true, samba does in fact support hard links but it is really just
like another NFS! the filesystem on the other end of the cifs share must
support hardlinks as samba is just the layer translating over the network.
Samba can scale better than NFS also.
I don't know if samba support hardlinks on "smb" shares or just "cifs"
shares, I have not checked that out. "cifs" is essential a newer version of
"smb" and I don't know what the feature differences are.
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
>
> > i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already
> > read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports
> > hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs
> > does not support hardlinks (as far as i know) so i cannot mount the
> > NAS as a smb/cifs share. so i have two questions:
> >
> > in what filesystem should i mount the terastation??? (assuming that
> > filesystem is supported by the terastation)....
>
> I believe Samba actually does support hardlinks, but it's not a
> filesystem. If you have a drive that is formatted as FAT32 for
> instance, you won't get hardlinks, since FAT32 doesn't support
> hardlinks. If your NAS supports NFS mounts, try that. People here
> generally suggest to choose a local/external drive over a NAS: less
> hassle and better performance.
>
> > and do i simply just mount the terasation to /var/lib/backuppc/ ????
>
> Sure.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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