Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-08-06 Thread Peter Lavender
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 07:34 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Lavender
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:02 -0400, Phil K. wrote: > > I've been happily running backuppc on a dlink dns-321 with only minor > issues (RRDtool wants the nolock option for some reason). NFS has been > quite stable and tweakable for oue use. I'm running a Thecus, N4200 as my Home NAS and it's NF

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about the Server Status cgi page

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Lavender
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 22:41 +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Peter Lavender wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've been running backuppc for a while now, and have been wondering > > about the backuppc Server Status web page. > > > > It's alway

[BackupPC-users] Question about the Server Status cgi page

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi Everyone, I've been running backuppc for a while now, and have been wondering about the backuppc Server Status web page. It's always shows the same values: The servers PID is 15721, on host rabbit, version 3.1.0, started at 4/4 13:49. * This status was generated at 5/9 20:38. * T

Re: [BackupPC-users] More on backing up to NFS

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Lavender
, however it's failing with a tar exited with a 512 error, more googling to be done. But it's a good start.. On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 17:29 +1000, Peter Lavender wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I came across this thread regarding the NFS and hardlinking: > > http://www.backupc

[BackupPC-users] More on backing up to NFS

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi Everyone, I came across this thread regarding the NFS and hardlinking: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/backuppc-21/nfs-mount-for-backup-storage-73200/ In that, one of the posters said he moved his mount point to /var/lib/backuppc When I tried

[BackupPC-users] backing up to NAS over NFS

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi Everyone, Googling around implies this should be possible, however I'm not sure where to go next. My setup is as follows: Linux Server ( old desktop PC ) with a NFS mounted filesystem pointing to the NAS which has all the storage space. The server itself doesn't have much free disk space, so