[BackupPC-users] data pool: which kind of share?

2015-12-16 Thread absolutely_f...@libero.it
Hi, I need to use a Windows server (with OS Windows Server Storage) as pool, so I was wondering if samba can works (I have BackupPC on a different machine, but with limited disk size)is it possible to configure BackupPC to use samba share as data pool? Comparing to NFS .. which is better? Than

Re: [BackupPC-users] data pool: which kind of share?

2015-12-16 Thread Christian Völker
Well, reading docs and getting knowledge helps. Then you would have known (and I assume you know about the hardlinks as you want to move your 2.4TB pool) that BackupPC (at least v3.x) relies heavily on hardlinks. And no, nor Samba neither Windows offer hardlinks on SMB based filesystems. Use NFS.