To close this thread, I found the following:
1. CIFS does support hard links. I ran a test linking some files as well as
googled cifs+hard links. The Buffalo NAS boxes don't support NFS out of the
box. One has to load new firmware to replace the OS, but the do support
CIFS.
2. I had an older backuppc (version 3.1.0) with the hard-coded TopDir, so I
had to mount the NAS at /var/lib/backuppc. Once I did that, it all worked as
expected.
Thanks for all your help!
Mark
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 7/11/2011 1:08 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Can TopDir be a network drive?
> >>
> >> I have a NAS, and I would like to use rsync to store the data on the NAS
> >> from the backuppc server. Is this possible? How do I configure it?
> >
> > To add to Andy's comments. Obviously the underlying file-system still
> > has to support hardlinks...
>
> Which means you need to mount it via NFS, not CIFS.
>
> > An alternative to changing TopDir is to symlink or bind mount the
> > storage to the default TopDir. Two reasons for this are:
> >
> > 1. If you change backup location you just update the symlink or bind
> command
> > 2. If you're running on a system with SELinux enabled (i.e.,
> > enforcing) it helps avoid SELinux policy issues depending on if there
> > are specific context/policies enforced for BackupPC (like Fedora).
>
> If you are using a packaged install (.deb/.rpm) earlier than 3.2 you'll
> to use the symlink/mount approach to keep the expected TopDir location
> (normally /var/lib/backuppc) set by the package builder.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
>
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