Re: areca backup folder to samba shared folder
2012/6/27 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:12:17 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>
>> 2012/6/26 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version
>>>> yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder.
>>>> But this can be done on Windows 2003 & Windows 7.
>>>>
>>>> Any workaround? Or maybe I had missed a thing or two?
>>>
>>> Uh? Yes, you should can :-?
>>>
>>> How did you setup the samba share local folder? IIRC, you have to use
>>> cifs (mount -t cifs ...). Once you have check the manual mount point is
>>> nicely done and works as you want you can add the samba share to your
>>> "/ etc/fstab" so it gets mounted on every boot.
>>
>> maybe it cannot be used because i use nautilus to mount the samba share
>> folder instead of command line?
>
> To use Areca Backup I recall that you needed a samba volume mounted
> locally, yes. If Nautilus is accesing the share via "smb://" the trick
> does not work (in fact, that's one of the reasons I stopped using Areca's
> solution :-) )
>
do you have any suggestion for open source backup software that can
backup to samba & do block level backup while the source is still
running?
preferrably would be able to run on linux and windows client
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Regards,
Umarzuki Mochlis
http://debmal.my
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