Hi David, On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote: > All, > > Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB external > WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and which I > mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer version on > Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1. > > Once I had setup installed BackupPC 3.1, mounted my backup device using cifs > and restored my configuration files I started up BackupPC only to get the > message: > > "Can't create a test hardlink......." I'm not sure whether CIFS supports hardlinks.
> Under BackupPC 3.0 I never had a problem performing backups and I can still > access the backups that I have from the 3.0 version. There are no error > messages in any of the log files. So, did something change between 3.0 and > 3.1 ? Is there a way I can check manually by creating a hardlink on the > backups partition from the shell ? Sorry, not a Linux guru so not well up > on the commands to do this. [...] > I did do a df -i and got the following output: > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > //192.168.15.6/public > 116M 1.7M 115M 2% /backups You used the BackupPC package from your distribution? It probably doesn't have the backup storage configured as /backups, but maybe /var/lib/backuppc. The easiest way is to stick to that location and mount your NAS there. You may check whether hardlinks work correctly by opening a shell and doing: echo hello > testfile ln testfile linkedfile echo olleh > linkedfile cat testfile There should be no error messages and the last command should output "olleh". If you do an ls -l testfile linkedfile, you should see something like this: -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 6 2009-03-26 16:25 linkedfile -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 6 2009-03-26 16:25 testfile - note the 2 here! It says: link count 2. Hope that helps, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/