[GNC] Backup Solution - Linux Desktop to Synology NAS

Fred Bone Fred at mandfb.me.uk
Sat Sep 28 09:48:43 EDT 2024


On 27 September 2024 at 10:33, Chris Miller said:

[...]
> I also note that you may run into problems using rsnapshot on an NTFS
> filesystem mounted CIFS, meaning you are an SMB client. If you are
> "snapping" two files with names differentiated only by case, then these
> will collide on case insensitive filesystems, and you'll lose one of them.
> I believe that this can be changed if you perform the magical and possibly
> mythical NTFS configuration setting that preserves case sensitivity on
> Windows systems and then mount your CIFS shares on an NFS server, and then
> "reshare". 

Just to note that it's not mythical. It's a per-directory setting (which 
you can only change on an empty - normally new - directory).

<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity>




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