On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:01:58AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > "Gavin Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > If you give them all a different ips, then write a perl/python
> > > etc. script that pings the machines before amcheck kicks in and then
> > > the script can delete or insert a # as appropriate in the disklist:
> > >
> > > Or maybe not ;-)
> >
> > If they have different IP addresses, then you don't really need a
> > script to modify disklist. The other OSes will just fail when amdump
> > is run, and get picked up again next time.
> >
> > However, this approach requires that each OS is available often enough
> > in your tapecycle to have satisfactory backups.
> >
> > Having everything mounted on each OS has advantages here.
>
> Not as much as you might think. The mount points would vary from
> OS to OS so there would be a ton of DLE's, one for each FS times
> the number of OS's.
That's why I mentioned the creative use of mount --bind and symlinks, so you
can create a consistent look across the different OSses.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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