Incremental Backups to NTFS NAS

Chaim Rieger chaim.rieger at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 23:40:56 UTC 2008


Cesar Covarrubias wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a client that wants to do incremental backups of his RHEL4 box,
> but does not want to go with our current vendor backup solution.
> Instead, they would like to back all the files up to a NAS that is using
> NTFS and Windows file shares to connect to it. I mounted the NAS and
> tried to use the solution found at
> http://www.howtoforge.com/rsync_incremental_snapshot_backups , but kept
> getting errors when the script tried to create a sym link to files
> stored on the NAS with the error "cannot create link... Operation not
> permitted". Has anyone had experience setting up incremental backups
> from a linux box to an NTFS NAS?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Very Respectfully,
> Cesar Covarrubias
> 
ntfs and windows do permissions differently.

which one are you asking about ?



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