Hi list,
my problem is solved for now. It's been more related to automount issues.
I'm doing the mount of the [0-2] dirs via submount now.
Thanks anyways
Michael Mayer
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Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux...
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
> Hi,
> Moment, i think i don't understand your problem, so lets clarify a bit:
> you have installed amanda-client on all the hosts in question.
> so why do you want to automount the directory's via nfs?
> i guess they are local filesystems to the clients, aren't they?
>
> you should install amanda on the nfs server, and do the backups from there.
> amanda-backup over nfs is not a good thing, it is slooow.
>
> Michael Mayer schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > amanda is installed on each client. My problem is how to mount them via
> > automounter in /home/$host including the subdirs [0-2] which are diferent
> > filesystems.
>
> are the subdirs [0-2] nfs-shares or local to the clients?
>
> Christoph
> >
> > Michale
> >
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> > Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>Why do you want to nfs-mount these dirs to the amanda server?
> >>It is much better to install the amanda-client part on all these machines
> >>and tell amanda to get the backups direct from these hosts.
> >>This way you can let them do compression localy, saving time, bandwith and
> >>cpu-power on your amanda-server.
> >>Christoph
> >>
> >>
> >>Michael Mayer schrieb:
> >>
> >>>Hi list,
> >>>
> >>>I've got some problem related with amanda backup. We've got several boxes
> >>>around here. On ervery box we have 1-3 15-20 GB homes, currently
> >>>mounted on /home/$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
> >>>
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> >>>Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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