If you run a recent version of samba, it supports hardlinks. Windows XP and
higher support hardlinks with their version of NTFS and this does work quite
well over samba.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tino Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:14PM +0200, Daniel Dietz wrote:
> > Hi I'm planning to install BackupPC but I couldn't figure out if it is
> > possible to store the backup files on another Server. Because our main
> File
> > Server we use for backup is a Windows 2003 R2 Server. So my Question is
> it
> > possible to store all the backup files on this server and NOT locally on
> the
> > BackupPC-Server?
>
> BackupPC doesn't care where the data is stored. It only needs a
> filesystem which is available locally _and supports hardlinks_.
>
> So, if you manage to somehow mount your Windows' NTFS to your BackupPC
> server, it should work since NTFS supports hardlinks. I'd test that
> rather intensive, though.
>
> Tino.
>
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