Symlink errors to CIFS drive

I'm trying to back up my new Fedora 11 linux home server to a network mounted drive. It's a FreeAgent disk formatted as HFS+ and attached via USB to an Apple Airport Extreme.

It's exposed to the linux box via CIFS on the local network. Here are the details:
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The /etc/fstab auto-mounts the drive at /mnt/SBE via:

\\192.168.1.1\freeagent\040-\040server /mnt/SBE cifs credentials=/etc/sbe_creds,uid=0,gid=0,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,perm 0 0

It's being mounted visible only to the root account (with permissions enforced) so other users on the linux system cannot access the data.
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I set up BIT earlier today to back up most of the drive - the /home/ hourly, and most of the other / partition weekly. When I first started the backup manually to see what's going on. Here is the output I saw.

I'm a little concerned this may be a problem. I've read https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/76992 and also http://backintime.le-web.org/2009/05/10/files-not-copied-when-backup-directory-is-on-smbfs/ and am a little worried about my setup. I need/want to mount the drive over CIFS with permissions enforced, but unlike the le-web.org post, I do see some files stored on the remote drive.

Anyway, here are the errors. Will the symlink errors cause a problem? Or will it work but merely "take additional space" because symlinks will be dereferences during the backup forcing files to be duplicated (but only during the first snapshot)?

INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/awk" -> "gawk" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/csh" -> "tcsh" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/dnsdomainname" -> "hostname" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/domainname" -> "hostname" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/ex" -> "vi" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/gtar" -> "tar" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/mail" -> "mailx" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/nisdomainname" -> "hostname" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/ntfsmount" -> "ntfs-3g" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/rvi" -> "vi" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/rview" -> "vi" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/sh" -> "bash" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/traceroute6" -> "traceroute" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/view" -> "vi" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/bin/ypdomainname" -> "hostname" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/boot/grub/menu.lst" -> "./grub.conf" failed: Operation not supported (95)

NEWnavy:/root#226 -> jobs
[1] + 3134 Running /usr/bin/backintime-gnome
NEWnavy:/root#227 -> killrsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/etc/favicon.png" -> "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png" failed: Operation not supported (95)
 rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/etc/grub.conf" -> "../boot/grub/grub.conf" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/mnt/SBE/snapshots/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/etc/init.d" -> "rc.d/init.d" failed: Operation not supported (95)