Like all good little sysadmins I immediately thought of using the pogoplug for backups.

Since I am planning on having several different systems talk to this device, I decided to use an ext2 file system on a 1TB external drive.

I then got cwRsync server from http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650 up and running.

I configured rsnapshot on my linux server to pull from the rsync daemon running on the windows machine.

The initial backup worked beautifully, however, subsequent backups failed.

It appears to be an issue with fuse, but I can't seem to find the magic, if it exists, to work around it.

root@Pogoplug:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (ro,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
/tmp/.cemnt/sda1 on /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1 type ufsd (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=22,dmask=22,nocase,sparse,force)
/tmp/.cemnt/sdb1 on /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1 type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime)

From my rsnapshot.log:
ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp?

And if I try to manually do a cp -al on a directory:

cp: cannot create link `/pogoplug/ext2/Downloads.3/desktop.ini': Function not implemented

Does anyone know of a fix or workaround?