Steve Roder wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>      We are recently beginning to backup some Linux boxes, and have run
> into the limitation whereby the EXT3 filesystems are not supported by TSM
> V4.2.  The doc claims that they can be backed up in "compatibility mode",
> but it does not explain how to accomplish this.  Does anyone here know how
> to backup these filesystems?  Here is what they look like in /etc/fstab:
>
> LABEL=/            /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot        /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/boot2       /boot2                  ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/root2       /root2                  ext3    defaults        1 2
>
> And of course, the followup question to Tivoli, if they are listening, is
> if support for ext3 is planned?  For now, it would be nice to enable
> backups of these filesystems in this so called "compatibility mode".
>
Hi Steve,

Just try the following option in your dsm.sys file:

virtualmountpoint /
virtualmountpoint /boot
virtualmountpoint /boot2
virtualmountpoint /root2

Regards,


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