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Re: [Networker] Trouble backing up a CIFS/NAS mount - iSCSI instead?

2009-11-30 10:29:09
Subject: Re: [Networker] Trouble backing up a CIFS/NAS mount - iSCSI instead?
From: Eugene Vilensky <evilensky AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:25:27 -0600
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:34 AM, T. S. Kimball <t.s.kimball AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Followup (via the list, since forum has stopped mirroring the list again).
>
> It's been confirmed that we no longer have domain admin, and can't even join
> new hosts to it.  So a solution needs to be used that does not require a
> domain login.
>
> What I've now proposed to our PC/NAS folks is to have the NAS also present
> this ZFS device as an iSCSI LUN, and mount it onto the Windows client that
> way.
>
> Does anyone see potential problems with this?  It's not been done yet as
> we're working out a separate issue with the 7410 first.
>
> --TSK

this won't work.  You can have a block device (zfs volume dataset) or
a NAS export/CIFS share (zfs "filesystem" dataset), but it just
doesn't work to have both of the same data type.

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