On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:
>
> Thanks for the additional info. Actually I was about to resurrect
> this thread myself. I discovered after removing the suggested
> services that my mirrordir I run nightly was failing. Seems it was
> unable to successfully mount and unmount my secondary internal hard
> drive (I keep it unmounted except when mirroring my primary drive).
> Temporarily I added back the netfs, nfslock,and portmap services and
> that seems to have solved the problem. However, I don't know which of
> these I can remove and not have the problem again. I haven't had a
> chance to experiment since I discovered the problem a couple days
> ago. Suggestions appreciated.
Eric,
Are you using mirrordir on a local drive or across a network connection?
It doesn't appear to have any dependencies on anything else. so the
incantation :
mirrordir -v / /mnt/tartget -exclude /mnt
should work just fine locally.
I would ask how and when you are mounting the secondary drive? It sounds
like (based on the services you reinstated) that you are NFS sharing the
secondary drive. Are you using automount to mount the drive when
mirrordir fires or is it explicitly mounted by hand (or script)?
--
Matthew Micene
Systems Development Manager
Express Search Inc.
www.ExpressSearch.com
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