CIFS = SMB for unix as best I can tell. Don't know if CIFS does hard links.
I see feature pages that say hard link support has been added and a lot of
complaints pre-2009 about CIFS not doing hard links. Install it and try.
Sent from my phone. Please pardon my brevity,
Dan
On Jan 25, 2014 3:16 PM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:44 AM, shankarp
> <backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply Les Mikesell. My NAS supports SMB and FTP for file
> sharing, doesn't support NFS. I think SMB doesn't support hard links. Any
> solution to use this SMB share as storage location?
> >
>
> If the NAS is linux based, it might support the unix CIFS extensions,
> but I don't have any experience with that. I'd recommend adding
> local drives to the box running backuppc even if they have to be
> external.
>
> If you like to live on the bleeding edge, there is a new alpha version at:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/backuppc-beta/4.0.0alpha3/
> that has a new storage scheme that does not use hardlinks. Not sure
> if it is ready for prime time, though.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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