[ALUG] Backup solutions for "not very linux" server destinations

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:16:40PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
 
> My Network Drive is a Samba server which, among other things, does not
> support "unix extensions".  I have to disable the unix extensions for
> the drive to be mountable at all by doing:-
> 
>     echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
> 
> Having done this when you do an rsync copy of (for example) my home
> directory to the network Drive there are lots of errors, I can reduce
> them by telling rsync not to try and create symlinks but I still get
> some other errors that I can't clear at all.  No doubt rsysnc is
> actually copying nearly everything I want copied but I could do with a
> 'cleaner' solution.

Am I missing why you can't use tar? Or if you want to use rsync so you
only sync changed files, you could make a file on the network server,
format it as an ext3 filesystem, loopback mount it and rsync to that.

J.

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