Jimmy,
FWIW, I am running NBU 5.1 MP6, so I am not up to speed yet on wht 6.x
contains, but we have Linux Media Srvs (RHEL 4) we use as clients to backup NFS
shares (you should be able to use any Linux client to backup an NFS share as
long as the permissions allow it). Check to see that the policy type should be
"Standard" and in the policy definition "Follow NFS" is also checked.
We process a large amount of data in the above configuration, however, we have
found that RHEL 4 (using autofs version 4) has some problems in that the
/net/<share location> can become stale over time and require a restart of
autofs and/or a reboot of the Linux client! The issue is that autofs 4 likes
to "walk" the path/tree in such a way that it is cached for some time (the
thought is that it will not have to re-walk the tree and be able to serve data
faster) - I suspect that autofs gets hosed if there are successive/multiple
requests and it cannot service the requests fast enough. On the other hand,
using Solaris will avoid this mess altogether and if possible, try to direct
NFS traffic over a Solaris 10 host instead of Linux. I have been told the above
issue is fixed in RHEL 5 (with autofs version 5), but I am more apt to believe
that Solaris 10 will handle this traffic in a more stable manner. My $.02.
Thanks,
Doug
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jimmy
Stewpot
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:56 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux systems not following NFS
Hello,
I have setup a policy on our netbackup 6.0 MP5 master server so that the
policy is set to backup NFS and cross mount points. I have just checked
the backup files and it has not included the NFS mounts on those systems.
I am keen to know if anyone has experienced this type of problem before?
Additionally do I only need to configure the NFS at a policy level or do
I need to include other configuration variables in other locations?
Regards,
Jimmy.
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