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I have network attached disk available for backup, but I cannot select it because I am only shown physical disks other than my system disk. This would be absolutely suitable target. I'm guessing you're parsing fstab to find suitable targets, I think you could look for nfs mounts, and allow those.

I will evaluate it; the big problem is to ensure that the NAS supports hard links (not all NAS support them), because it is a must for cronopete.

That's a fair point. I'm not sure how you could know without some sort of internal test, it's not visible in the mount (afaik). Maybe you should wait to see if anyone else is keen on having this capability. At this point I'm having other problems which need resolution before I worry about this (which might be that I'm using Linux Mint Mate, which I note you don't support).

Linux Mint, AFAIK, is based on Ubuntu, so the ubuntu packages should be fine.

I'd love to give cronopete a try and replace my own script (which is really geared towards headless servers) with this GUI backup solution for my laptop. As it stands I am using an encrpyted disk image on a drive mounted via cifs from a fileserver at the office and thus cannot use cronopete.

Please re-evaluate this feature request, to add network drives or really any arbitrary mounted filesystems (LUKS in my case) to the disk selection. Checking for hardlink capability could be as easy as creating a temporary one and then deleting it, or just checking for the filesystem (extX, xfs, btrfs, zfs etc.) und mapping against a hardcoded list of valid entries, so from my naive point of view this shouldn't be a blocker.

Thank you!

Hello

I just found this software and would also like to backup to my NAS :(

Helle, I find this software today and I would also backup to my NAS. I install the Xhenial on Zesty with the build-in install and that works. I still work with Fedora and Debian. The NAS advantage : it's always connected. Thank you for your work.

Hi!

Thanks. Unfortunately, I'm still evaluating how to do backups in a portable and reliable way to NAS.

El mié, 23 de ago 2017 a las 4:39 PM, Jean-Henri Colleye [email protected] escribió:

Helle, I find this software today and I would also backup to my NAS. I install the Xhenial on Zesty with the build-in install and that works. I still work with Fedora and Debian. The NAS advantage : it's always connected. Thank you for your work.

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I would also be interested in this feature. Thanks for the work :)

It would be a super useful feature! Any way to trick the app to believe that a NAS disk is a USB drive and make it work somehow? :)

Just found something that might work but I know nothing about: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179573 How could I try that?

Should be really usefull to backup on sshfs / smbfs nice job at the beginning, should be a interesting project to follow :+1:

Hello, first of all : thanks ! I also heard about Cronopete recently, installed it on my Arch Linux and found that my NAS could not be use as a target. I think that because my NAS is a Synology, running a linux based OS, and the HDD inside in EXT4, the hard link could be supported. Don't you think ?

+1

Any progress? What about at least allowing the user to check by himself/herself and at least try at his/her own risk? I mean, instead of blocking the feature for all NAS because you are searching a reliable way to check about the hard links, what about allowing the feature for all NAS, just warning the user that it might not work and need to be checked?

Answers anyone?

Currently I'm refactoring cronopete's code, to separate the backend and the frontend. The new backend uses Rsync internally, and I want to add support for several backends, so maybe in a month or so there will be a version able to do backups to remote NAS.

That's great! Thank you for your answer, and keep up the good work!

I saw you made many commits recently... could you start any development in the NAS direction?

I'll try, but since I don't have a NAS, I will need some help to ensure that it works...

I will do my best to help! Just tell me what to do.

I can also help with testing on QNAP NAS

First, I need the "rsync" parameters to do a backup to a NAS, using hard links...

could something like this help?

That seems to not use hard links to do the backups...

What about creating a QCOW or similar in the NAS, and backup into the QCOW as the filesystem will support hard links? Isn't this similar to what TM does?

Hi,

Just adding my voice of support here.

I recently installed cronopete in Linux Mint 19, and attempted to start backups to a NAS by using the "folder" option. My NAS server (ZFS on Linux running on an Debian Jessie server, with file systems shared over NFS) has a folder permanently mounted via /etc/fstab. I pointed cronopete's folder option at the mount point, and have not had much success. Cronopete looks like it is doing something (spinning indicator in taskbar) but looking at system monitor there is no network traffic, and after 48 hours of waiting there is only 24.2MB of data in the cronopete folder on the NAS server.

Clicking through the cronopete folder on the NAS it appears to have transferred some of the /home/user folder, but most folders are empty. Maybe this is due to a lack of support for hardlinks? I'm not sure if hardlinks would work in this setup.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my success (or lack thereof)

Keep up the good work, this looks like an excellent piece of software, and I will definitely use it and would be happy to donate once I get NAS support working.

--Matt

Hard links are a must currently, so that's probably why it doesn't work.

BTW, the code repository has been migrated to gitlab.

Hi everyone,

As I wrote on GitLab, I solved this Problem by mounting my NAS via ssh to a folder on my Computer and backing up into that folder. Like this it works like a charm :)

Dorian