How about something like this: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/tar/Incremental-Dumps.html Not sure if it's the "best" way of doing it, but maybe it helps you towards finding a solution. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cesar Covarrubias Sent: 09 September 2008 00:49 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Incremental Backups to NTFS NAS > > 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? > > > > > ntfs and windows do permissions differently. > > which one are you asking about ? The NAS is using NTFS. I had to connect to it by running the following: mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=password //nas.hostname.edu/share /mountpoint Very Respectfully, Cesar Covarrubias -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
