Re: [rdiff-backup-users] newbie, mac os x

[Mathieu Lecarme]

Peter Valdemar Mørch a écrit :
> Enrique Vetere evetere-at-gmail.com |Lists| wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm beginning to use rdiff-backup on mac os x. I'd like to backup to 
>> an externaly mounded volume (via samba on a remote win xp).
>> I'm getting:
>>
>> Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem at /Volumes/
>> prometeo.local
>
> Hi there,
>
> rdiff-backup has a "--no-hard-links" switch to avoid that.
>
> However, problems with fsync on smb mounts is probably going to kill
> you, just as it did me and others. See the thread called:
>
>    rdiff-backup + smbfs = :'(
>
> See e.g. here for two workarounds:
> http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/FsyncErrorError
>
> The first one requiring an unauthorized patch to the code, and the
> other using another filesystem in a file on the windows mount.
>
> I know that OS X is FreeBSD underneath, so I don't know exactly what
> you'll run into, but that has been my experience on Linux.
>
> As it is right now, I don't think rdiff-backup works from Linux or
> Unix with windows mounts out-of-the-box.
Osx can do image disk easily, it's the famous .dmg files, usually used
for software installation from the net. But i don't like image disk for
backup. If the image file is damaged, all the backup is dead. With a
classical backup, you only loose the damaged file.

M.