olddog11
Use cifs
Change or share your workstation backup location as
//workstationname/backup folder, in your case I'd assume that is
home/smebackup
Note that a full backup across a network may take longer than 8 hours depending on how much data you have on the server
You may be better off attaching a USB drive to the server & swapping that at regular intervals (eg daily), these are cheap.
When I use cifs I get the following error but nfs does not backup either.
Oct 27 16:05:02 galahad kernel: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6
You need to resolve why this is happening rather than ignoring it.
A guess would be that the sme server cannot access the share on the workstation, either due to it being specified incorrectly, or not shared in Windows networking (assuming a Windows workstation), or wrong credentials ie user & password
What is the login name and password? Do I enter the username and password of the workstation being backed up to or is it something else entirely?
It would be the username & password for a valid user who has access permitted to the backup share location on the workstation in question.
You can test access to the share at the sme server command prompt by manually issuing a mount command on that workstation share. Search the forums & wiki (try Backup with dar contrib wiki) for a suitable command.
ie
umount /mnt/smb
/bin/mount -t cifs //stationXX/bkp1 /mnt/smb -o username=XXXXXX,password=XXXXXXXXXXXXX
ls -al /mnt/smb/servername.yourdomain.com
umount /mnt/smb
(change names to suit your location, & note the directory listing (ls) of the backup subfolder will only be displayed if you have made a successful backup)
Also look in the messages log file (in server manager) around the time you schedule a cifs backup, and see what command is issued, and what error messages are received.