Hi David, On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:02:16PM -0400, David Williams wrote: > I'm not sure what the filesystem is. I suspect it is NTFS. I guess > whatever these drives come as. > > I did try what Tino suggested and this is what happened: > > [r...@dtwconsulting backups]# echo hello > testfile > [r...@dtwconsulting backups]# ln testfile linkedfile > ln: creating hard link `linkedfile' => `testfile': No such file or directory > > So yes, does look like there is a problem. > > I have checked my previous backups and don't see any errors though, and I > was able to restore some of the files ! > > Is there a way that I can reformat this drive to ext3 ? Is it even possible > to format the drive from linux when it is mounted as cifs ?
Not directly since you use the drive as a NAS, therefore you access it via some network protocol. Does it support NFS? If so, try using that and perform the above test. A not-so-nice solution would be to create an x GB file and format that with whatever unix filesystem you like. It would work roughly like this (for a 10 GB volume): dd if=/dev/zero of=/backups/backuppc-volume bs=1M count=10240 mke2fs -m 1 -j /backups/backuppc-volume mount -o loop,noatima,nodiratime /backups/backuppc-volume /var/lib/backuppc If you run out of space on the volume later, you may resize it by growing the file first (be careful!), then resizing the file system. I suppose, performance is not an issue for you - it may be pretty slow... I wonder how you managed to do backups the first time, though... you only upgraded your server? Then there must have been a way to create links or BackupPC would have complained a lot. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
