Thanks, Kern, for your insightful response. 

> The proper way to do that would be to comment it out in /src/config.h

That's exactly what I ended up doing.

> HAVE_CHFLAGS is set when there is a chflags function on your system and you 
> run ./configure.  Either you did not run ./configure on your NAS or there is 
> some missing or modified header files.  chflags is something that is 
> implemented on FreeBSD and possibly other BSD systems, which are commonly 
> used for NAS boxes.

The build did not indicate any missing headers, but it consistently failed 
unless I undef-ed HAVE_CHFLAGS.

> Well, without that code, Bacula will not save and restore the appropriate 
> flags bits, which are an extension over standard Unix/Linux permissions.  I 
> would guess it may not be so important on a NAS, but the only way you can 
> know is ask the manufacturer.  

Support is not the company's strong suit. They maintain a list of forums where 
it seems that they expect users to solve each others problems.
At least that's been my experience, having left multiple queries without a 
company support response.

It's a pretty stripped down version of Linux. I've had to build many of the 
standard packages from source on the machine, which have been a standard part 
of every other distribution I've installed.

I'll keep the chflags issue in mind while testing. It hasn't been a problem 
yet, but I've only recently got everything to build and to work together.

So far, Bacula seems like a robust and adaptive solution for NAS backups. 
Thanks to all who worked on this great program!

Steve Downie
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s...@comcast.net

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