Tino, Thanks for the info. I will look into whether or not the drive can be mounted as NFS. I've never had to do that so will have to look into what it will take to perform that.
____________________________________________________ David Williams -----Original Message----- From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:53 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device 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 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/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.24/2018 - Release Date: 03/23/09 06:52:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/