Incremental Backups to NTFS NAS

[Cesar Covarrubias]

> > 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