T0rqueWr3nch Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 (edited) Hi everyone, I'm trying to periodically backup my various web servers (running Ubuntu) by having them periodically rsync to a user share I created specifically for that purpose. Each server has its own directory within that backup user share and that share is mounted locally to the server via cifs. Almost everything syncs perfectly with the exception of anything that requires a symbolic link. I constantly get errors with rsync: symlink <symbolic link path here> failed: Operation not supported (95). The error sounds pretty straightforward, except I believe the operation is in fact supported. That and I assume that I'm not the only one in the world using unRAID to rsync backups. I know I've created symlinks in unRAID before. I thought the problem might be with Samba not allowing Unix commands on the unRAID server, so I updated the smb.conf file with "unix extensions = Yes" and restarted samba with "samba restart" but I get the same result. I am running 6.7.1. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Edited June 11, 2019 by T0rqueWr3nch Including unRAID version. Quote Link to comment
T0rqueWr3nch Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 Pinging this again. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Instead of rsync, why not tar with compression? Quote Link to comment
RasterEyes Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 About four years later, I've just run into this issue too. Any solutions yet? I'm guessing there's some difficultly with the handling of symlinks on SMB shares. Quote Link to comment
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