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Use a Linksys NSLU2 NAS appliance on 10.3
Authored by: mattmoss on Sep 22, '04 10:24:44PM

One of the nice things about the NLSU2 is that is has some basic backup facilities built into the device. I was easily able to setup the device to do a full backup of two Windwos XP machines. (Setting up the shares on the XP machines was much more of a pain than setting up the NLSU2.)

However, I had a problem backing up my iBook. I setup a samba share to the whole drive (/Volumes/drivename) in smb.conf. The NLSU2 had no problem finding it and starting the backup. But it went wrong when it hit automount/Servers, which contained a symbolic link back to /. The link wasn't recognized as a link but rather a folder, so I have this nice, many many levels deep folder on the drive.

I don't know if this is a fault of samba, or OSX, or the NLSU2... it worked fine on my Windows machine (backing up all of C:), so I'm not sure exactly where the problem lies.



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