Preston de Guise wrote:
> 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.

That is just ridiculous. Someone in EMC needs shooting for that. That
means that the default behaviour is to backup potentially large
filesystems multiple times over a network connection. Worse still, it is
difficult and clumsy to suppress this default behaviour, whereas it is
quite simple the other way round. What versions are you referring to
Preston?

> 
> 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 :(

It wouldn't surprise me either but it would severely disappoint me. I
really hope this hasn't happened. Alex, what version are you using and I
will add it to my growing list of versions to avoid at all costs.

It does seem that since Legato became EMC there have been a number of
poor decisions regarding the development of the product and also
regarding the way it is packaged.

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