HI All

I currently running rsync to a nas box using

mount -t cifs //192.168.88.253/share/masterdocs -o username=admin,password=password /mnt/masterdocs

rsync -avzHK --delete-after /home/master-docs/ /mnt/masterdocs/ |tail -n 50 >/backup-log/masterdocs-backup.txt

The issue I have is that it seems to be saving to the /mnt/masterdocs folder and running out of space on the server. Is there anyway I can backup straight to the nas box without mounting to stop this issue happening.

Thanks

Glenn

What distribution/version are you running?

Without a lot of information to go on it looks like the NAS is not actually being mounted. Are you running the posted commands from a shell script?

Sorry running ubuntu 10.4 server.

The commands are running from a shell script

Thanks

Glenn

I assume that you are not logged in as root so are you using sudo in your script? i.e.
Can you successfully mount the share by typing it in at the command line vs running from a shell script?

Thanks for the reply.

This server is an internal server only so root account is enabled

If I run the command without creating the folder in mnt
root@z-push:~# mount -t cifs //192.168.88.253/share/masterdocs -o username=admin,password=password /mnt/masterdocs
mount error: can not change directory into mount target /mnt/masterdocs

If I create the folder first

root@z-push:/mnt# mount -t cifs //192.168.88.253/share/masterdocs -o username=admin,password=password /mnt/masterdocs
mount error(2): No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Thanks

FYI a mount point i.e directory must exist before you can mount a share.

It appears that you are trying to mount a subdirectory which may not work depending on the version of samba that is currently installed. So try:

That worked and then for some reason the my original mount worked afterword.

Thanks