John, have a look at the "automount" option in the TSM client manual.

Best regards,

Andy

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IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2009-03-02
18:28:28:

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> Backup of NFS filesystem fails to automount.
>
> Schneider, John
>
> to:
>
> ADSM-L
>
> 2009-03-02 18:31
>
> Sent by:
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> Greetings,
>
> We are trying to backup a filesystem that is an automounted NFS.  The
> automount is not happening; as you can see it only backs up the
> directory.  If I issue 'cd /mnt/mksysb' down to the directory the
> automount works.  I can run the schedule then and the scheduler sees and
> backs up the files.
>
> So why doesn't the TSM scheduler process cause automounter to mount the
> files?
>
> 03/02/09   01:00:08
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Schedule Name:         NIM_MASTER_NFS
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Action:                Incremental
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Objects:               /mnt/mksysb
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Options:               -subdir=y -compression=n
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Server Window Start:   01:00:00 on 03/02/09
> 03/02/09   01:00:08
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 03/02/09   01:00:08
> Executing scheduled command now.
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN NIM_MASTER_NFS 03/02/09
> 01:00:00
> 03/02/09   01:00:08 Incremental backup of volume '/mnt/mksysb'
> 03/02/09   01:00:09 Successful incremental backup of '/mnt/mksysb'
>
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects inspected:        1
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects backed up:        0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects updated:          0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects rebound:          0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects deleted:          0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects expired:          0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of objects failed:           0
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Total number of bytes transferred:        0  B
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Data transfer time:                    0.00 sec
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Network data transfer rate:            0.00 KB/sec
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Aggregate data transfer rate:          0.00 KB/sec
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Objects compressed by:                    0%
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 Elapsed processing time:           00:00:02
> 03/02/09   01:00:10 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John D. Schneider
> Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
> Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
> Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net
>
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