ADSM-L

Re: Fwd: adsm and loopback mounts

1998-10-22 07:47:08
Subject: Re: Fwd: adsm and loopback mounts
From: Michael Stahlberg <Michael.Stahlberg AT DE.UU DOT NET>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:47:08 +0200
Hi,

On 21-Oct-98 Andrew Raibeck wrote:
> This sounds like it might be APAR IC20712. Try the latest
> client version, 3.1.0.5, which should fix this.

That's right. We had the same problem a month ago. But now the directories are
backuped two times!!! -((

Regards,

        Michael

> 
> Regards,
>
> Andy
> 
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Storage Systems Division
> ADSM Client Development
> e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
> 
>>we are running adsm client Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.3, on Solaris
>>5.6, and server Version 3, Release 1, Level 1.5, on AIX-RS/6000.
>>
>>adsm does not back up in any way filesystems that are of type "lofs"
>>(that is, loopback mounts).  to give a specific example, we have a
>>partition mounted as "/disk/2/eos".  this is loopbacked to a mount
>>point called "/projects/eos".  adsm does not back up any files in this
>>partition.  we have checked under both the non-loopbacked name
>>(/disk/2/eos/*) and the loopbacked name (/projects/eos/*); and in both
>>cases, the adsm client tells us "No files matching search criteria
>>were found".  lofs partitions are treated as if they don't exist.
>>
>>our questions are:  is there a version of the client/server that will
>>back up loopback mounted filesystems; or is it possible to force adsm
>>to back them up?
>>
>>we did try doing a selective backup, specifying our loopbacked
>>filesystems, but after the next incremental ran, those selective
>>backups disappeared from adsm's filespace; it was as if it had never
>>been backed up at all.
>>
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