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] Location of TopDir

2011-07-12 Thread Mark Phillips
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 back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Mark Phillips wrote on 2011-07-11 09:04:31 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir]: > Can TopDir be a network drive? no, BackupPC doesn't run on Windoze. > I have a NAS, and I would like to use rsync to store the data on the NAS > from the backuppc server. Is this possibl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/11/2011 1:08 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips > 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Andy Stetzinger
The short answer is yes. I've got backuppc running on a virtual machine, with a 24TB FreeNAS NFS mount set up. >From my config.pl # TopDir - where all the backup data is stored $Conf{TopDir} = '/mnt/tank'; So, just make a directory on the backuppc machine, in my case, /mnt/tank, and NFS m

[BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Phillips
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? Mark -- All of the data generated in your IT infra