How do you like yours on the whole? Does it use the WD enterprise drive re3?
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, David Williams <dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com> wrote: > From: David Williams <dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device > To: "'General list for user discussion, questions and support'" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:38 AM > It is connect via RJ45 to my router. > > > ____________________________________________________ > David Williams > > > _____________________________________________ > From: Chris Baker [mailto:cba...@intera.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:30 AM > To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and > support' > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device > > > > How does your Mybook connect to your machine? Is it USB, > Firewire, or eSATA? > > > Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com > systems administrator > INTERA -- 512-425-2006 > > > _____________________________________________ > From: David Williams [mailto:dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:03 AM > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [BackupPC-users] External WD > Worldbook Device > > 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......." > > And BackupPC would not start :-( Thankfully I have > been able to comment out > this check from the BackupPC program and get BackupPC up > and running so that > I can restore what I need from my backup drive via the web > interface. > > 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 take a look through the archives but nothing jumped > out to me as to > the problem. I would assume that since backups were > working just fine with > 3.0 that they should be fine in 3.1 and that my external > drive is ok? > > Would appreciate any help as I'd like to get my backups up > and running > again. > > 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 > > Regards, > ____________________________________________ > > > << File: ATT00020.txt >> << File: > ATT00023.txt >> << File: ATT00089.txt > >> << File: ATT00092.txt >> > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/