[PLUG] Backing Up Multiple Machines

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Fri Jan 21 20:12:58 UTC 2005


> I want to confirm that if I want filesystems on a second workstation
> to be backed up on tape in a drive installed on another box, then the
> filesystems must be exported from the remote system and nfs-mounted on
> the system with the tape drive. Is this correct?
>
> I think I need to modify my cron jobs so they mount the exported
> filesystems before running the backup, then umount them afterwards.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rich

Isn't that the only way the first drive will be able to see the second
computer?  Unless you are using some other protocol in your backup
util like ftp I'd have to think you will have to mount the drives
first.  We mount the drives here for that exact same reason.

Josh




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