On 12/12/07 12:42 PM, "Tim Mooney" <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU> wrote:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Ignore NFS mounts, Alex Alexiou said (at...:
> 
>> That's the problem; if we just say ALL, then Networker assumes you mean
>> everything in fstab, including all NFS mounts.
> 
> That's contrary to how the product has always worked, and contrary to
> the (vague) documentation.  What version of the client software are you
> using?  What version of the server software?

Perhaps some bright spark has decided that what is Good for SMB is good for
all.

I had an issue some time ago where a customer mounted approximately 2TB of
fileserver data from a Windows server onto a Linux server, and because they
wanted this mounted all the time, they added the SMB mounts to /etc/fstab on
Linux. Unfortunately, NetWorker decided they weren't NFS and started backing
them up.

While I had an RFE successfully raised and completed to take this
functionality out (arguing that SMB mounts are no different than NFS mounts
as far as whether the data is "local" or not), someone argued a counter-RFE
and got it reversed in the next version of NetWorker.

Since then, NetWorker has always blithely backed up SMB mounts that are in
/etc/fstab on Linux.

It wouldn't surprise me if more recent versions of NetWorker have done this
for NFS :(

Cheers,

Preston.

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