On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:21:11AM -0800, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
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/LinuxExtensionsEnabledHaving 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.
Yes, I saw somewhere else someone who had done that (the loopback mount thing), I think that may well be my most practical option. Thanks for reminding me about it.
... where can I find information about doing this on Linux? A quick Google search only seems to show Solaris information about it.