Hi, amanda is installed on each client. My problem is how to mount them via automounter in /home/$host including the subdirs [0-2] which are diferent filesystems.
Michale -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux... On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Christoph Scheeder wrote: > Hi, > Why do you want to nfs-mount these dirs to the amanda server? > It is much better to install the amanda-client part on all these machines > and tell amanda to get the backups direct from these hosts. > This way you can let them do compression localy, saving time, bandwith and > cpu-power on your amanda-server. > Christoph > > > Michael Mayer schrieb: > > Hi list, > > > > I've got some problem related with amanda backup. We've got several boxes > > around here. On ervery box we have 1-3 15-20 GB homes, currently > > mounted on /home/$host/[0-2]. Backupping these isn't that problem, but > > automounting them is such one. > > > > I'm using kernel 2.4.18-14 (standard redhat 8.0) with autofs. exporting > > the dirs via nfs isn't that problem since there exists the nohide option > > for nfs filesystems and so the local homes are mounted on > > /export/$host/[0-2] > > and mounted explicitly via nfs on > > /export/home. > > These dir is exported to all the other hosts including localhost. Writing > > to /export/home is very slow because of the nfsd working (a Factor of two > > even on an Athlon XP 2000+ with fast WD IDE discs) mounting /export/$host > > via automount directly only does an -o bind mount which doesn't include > > the contents of the [0-2] subdirs. > > > > Does anyone know some workaround to convince the mounter to include the > > subdirs' contents ? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Michael Mayer > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux... > > > > > >
