On 3/11/2010 12:50 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup a backup for a Windows host following the instructions
>> on
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC#head-9b279fb9534c6455ddadfd01dd91dddd
>> 2260b4cf. The particular place I'm getting stuck at is the part where
>> you're
>> supposed to cd /windows/machinename. That doesn't work; I get an error "
>> -bash: cd: /windows/starforge/: No such file or directory".
>>
>> At the second step where trying to mount the machine to the folder, I get
>> "unexpected token '('". When I remove the parentheses around "ro,man" and
>> run the mount command again, I get the mount help screen.
>>      I've never seen the word "on" on a mount command. Should it really
>> be there?
>>
>> I've tried to google this and sort out the problem, but have so far come
>> up
>> with nothing. The machine in question is a domain-connected server. Could
>> there be a problem there, in that the BPC-machine can't connect to a
>> domain-computer?
>>
>> Any help or insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
>> --
>> BW,
>
> For the record, getting autofs working on CentOS has nothing to do with
> BackupPC, so you may be looking in the wrong place.  I don't see anything
> wrong with the instructions at your link, so perhaps I can clarify:
>
> # mount
> //machinename/C$ on /windows/machinename type cifs (ro,mand)
>
> What follows the hash symbol is what you type:  mount.  The rest of that
> is the results of the mount command, if you have everything working
> properly.  You don't type it.
>
> Just typing "mount," incidentally, is supposed to show what automount has
> mounted, it doesn't actually do anything.  Had you configured autofs per
> the instructions, cd'ing to /windows/machinename would actually accomplish
> the mount.

Is there some particular reason for wanting to backup through 
automounted files systems?  Your full rsyncs are going to have to read 
the entire contents of the remote machines through the network for the 
comparison where if you install cygwin rsync on the targets it would do 
a local read and only transfer block checkums and differences.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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