> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:12 -0700, John Gallagher wrote: > > Thanks, > > > > I have a call into Veritas about XFS Support. > > > > The directories below the mount point are exported via NFS. > This may > > be a kluge but ..... Could I mount them via NFS in order for the > > back-up agent to be able to read the file system? > > Well, yeah, you could NFS export the XFS mountpoints, then > remount them under NFS: > > # exportfs -o ro localhost:/data > # exportfs -o ro localhost:/data1 > # mkdir -p /nfsstuff/data /nfsstuff/data1 > # mount localhost:/data /nfsstuff/data > # mount localhost:/data1 /nfsstuff/data1 > > and make sure you back up /nfsstuff. We do something similar > using Samba to handle the case-insensitivity of VFAT > filesystems with virtual host websites where the twits wrote > their code assuming Winblows IIS. > > Yes, it's a kludge, but it _should_ work. And as Henry > Kester once said, "If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid." > > > My only other options are to use Samba or a NFS mount from > the back-up > > server (W2k OS). > > Yeah, that's another option. > Per the instructions above I mounted the file system using NFS to localhost to test a work around for the XFS issue. All we can see are files at the root of the backup agent export but not any of the sub directories. I also mounted another NFS server to rule out problems with the local file system and had the same result. On a FC2 32 bit box running the same agent I can backup the nfs exported directories from this server. This leads me to believe the client installation on 64 bit has got some problems. I have an open ticket with Veritas however does FC4 64 bit support installing 32 bit support like RH3.0 64 bit does? Thanks, John
