NAS filesystem that supports hard links

[Ben Edwards]

Think connecting to the NAS via AFS may be the solution but cant find any
info on doing it from linux to this specific NAS.  doing it with NFS was
tricky enough.

On 28 July 2017 at 12:36, Ben Edwards <list4me2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For a year or so I have been using a d-link sharestation NAS in RAID0 for
> backups of a ownCloud server.  I've been using duplicity but now due to the
> size of the backup this is proving unpractical (I have to take ownCloud
> offline once a week to do a full backup and it is taking over 8 hours).
>
> I am moving over to a solution that used rsync and hard links but I don't
> think I can use this NAS, or indeed any NAS.  Originally I used duplicity
> as I did not think the NAS supported hard links but it says it does support
> MAC TimeMachine so I am thinking maybe it does.  Certainly using rsync
> with --link-dest to do a TimeMachine type backup it works but this does not
> work on the NAS (using NFS).  Am wondering if there is a way to get it
> working with this NAS, or a alternative make/model?  It also supports Samba.
>
> I know there is something you can use on samba servers called Unix
> Extension which I think may allow this.
>
> Ben
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