Sorry about this. I had asked the workstation owner to try this, and thought that they had. Apparently not, as virtualmountpoints work just fine.
Thanks! > Steve Roder wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > We are recently beginning to backup some Linux boxes, and have run > > into the limitation whereby the EXT3 filesystems are not supported by TSM > > V4.2. The doc claims that they can be backed up in "compatibility mode", > > but it does not explain how to accomplish this. Does anyone here know how > > to backup these filesystems? Here is what they look like in /etc/fstab: > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=/boot2 /boot2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=/root2 /root2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > > > > And of course, the followup question to Tivoli, if they are listening, is > > if support for ext3 is planned? For now, it would be nice to enable > > backups of these filesystems in this so called "compatibility mode". > > > Hi Steve, > > Just try the following option in your dsm.sys file: > > virtualmountpoint / > virtualmountpoint /boot > virtualmountpoint /boot2 > virtualmountpoint /root2 > > Regards, > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jaap P. Dijkshoorn > Systems Programmer > > http://home.sara.nl/~jaapd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Steve Roder, University at Buffalo HOD Service Coordinator VM Systems Programmer UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX) TSM/ADSM Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564 | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)
