Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup + smbfs = :'(

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Peter Valdemar Mørch swp5jhu02-at-sneakemail.com |Lists| wrote:
> I'm trying to rdiff-backup from linux to a smbfs mount.
>
> That ends up giving me an error: "Exception '[Errno 16] Device or 
> resource busy removing 

What I *did* succeed in doing was this: Create a single large file on 
the smb partition, and create a reiserfs system in that file, and then 
mount and use *that* for storing the rdiff-backup inside that.

Like this:

# Mount smb share
mount -t smbfs -o 'username=name,password=pass' \
   //server/share /mnt/smbShare/bigfile

# Create a 100MB file (or whatever is appropriate for you)
# to hold the ReiserFS file system...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/smbShare/bigfile bs=1M count=100
dev=`losetup -f`
echo $dev
losetup $dev /mnt/smbShare/bigfile
mkreiserfs $dev
losetup -d $dev

# Create mountpoint
mkdir /mnt/rdiff-backup

# Now mount it..
mount -o loop /mnt/smbShare/bigfile /mnt/rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup -yada -yada -yada /mnt/rdiff-backup/destination

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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com