ADSM-L

Re: reiserfs & ext3

2001-11-08 01:31:37
Subject: Re: reiserfs & ext3
From: "Jaap P. Dijkshoorn" <jaap AT SARA DOT NL>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:28:55 +0100
Charles Anderson wrote:
>
> ADSM _should_ be able to backup a read only filesystem as adsm ( tsm, 
> whatever ) shouldn't be writing to the filesystem to back it up ( that's what 
> the adsm server is for ), unless you're executing dsmc from withing that 
> filesystem, at which point you would be attempting to write dsmerror.log.
>
> The thing that throws me for a loop ( and  no doubt you as well ) is that it 
> does work with only that filesystem in the inc command.
>
> my 2cents.. probably not worth a worth much as I don't have an answer for you.
>
> tried  "/var/tripwire" in dsm.sys ?
>
> -ed
>
>
> >>> Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU 11/07/01 02:34PM >>>
> We have just installed the 4.2.1.0 client code on a Linux system with
> a mixture of ext2 and reiserfs file systems. A 'dsmc inc' command will
> consistently back up all but one of the file systems. The file system
> can be backed up successfully if it is specified explicitly on the
> command line ('dsmc inc /var/tripwire'). The missed file system is a
> reiserfs file system. As far as I can tell, the only thing unusual
> about the file system is that it is mounted read-only. Is this
> expected behavior or a bug?


The Virtualmointpoint works for xfs filesystems. We do backups of those
filesystems a couple of months and yes..we can even restore files..:)

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