On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:10:30PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> Yes, that's certainly an issue. Presumably you can lock down the
> directory perms to be root only or root/operator though. Depending on
> setup and money, backing up the backups to tape would give more saf
Tillman Hodgson wrote:
Could you use something like ssh to transfer the files rather than
needing NFS? (I don't know if you mentioned what the NFS-end box was...).
That's a good idea. In this case the NFS-end box is an Infrant appliance
so I don't think I can use scp. I'll check deeper i
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:24:03PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Tillman Hodgson wrote:
>
> >If that still holds true in the -current src, the second mount will
> >*definitely* cause me backup problems. I may have to move to keeping the
> >NFS export always mounted, which is not ideal.
>
> Could yo
Tillman Hodgson wrote:
If that still holds true in the -current src, the second mount will
*definitely* cause me backup problems. I may have to move to keeping the
NFS export always mounted, which is not ideal.
Could you use something like ssh to transfer the files rather than
needing NFS?
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> (Note that that in this case I'm backing up TO the NFS mount, and it's
> possible that the same NFS share could be mounted on the same spot
> twice, depending on how long it takes for the daily backup job to run).
Following up on m
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:04:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is this normal behaviour? Are there any problems with (performance,
> >perhaps) that might occur if an NFS share is mounted twice? What if my
> >backup job is still running, woul
On 2/12/07, Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
Further, you can mount /different/ shares to the same directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount /exports/srvbackup/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount_nfs nas:/pub /exports/srvbackup/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount | grep srvbackup
nas:/srvbackup o
A bit of background:
I run backup scripts (dumps piped through gzip to a fileshare) out of
periodic on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. In the script I mount the
NFS share, perform the dumps, and then umount the share. I was worried
that if a daily backup took a long time (more than twice the no
