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Directing backups to a Windows Share folder

Asked by Loren41

I am installing BIT on my ubuntu linux 12.04 laptop. I want to direct backups to a Samba Windows Share. < //laptop >
The server is unRAID from a Windows 7 pc.

The Where to Save Snapshots selection does not show my directory in the Places selection site. I tried smb://laptop and //laptop in the Advanced option but with no success. I rely mostly on GUI, but can edit files using the terminal.

Any suggestions?
Loren41

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Hi Loren41,

BIT does not (yet) support samba shares out of the box. But you can mount the share manually or with a 'user-callback' script. But you have to make sure that the share supports hard-links.
Or (if your server support ssh) you can try out the ssh-mode in new BIT version 1.0.20 on 'ppa:bit-team/stable'

Regards,
Germar

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