"Marcelo E. Magallon" <marcelo.magallon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> werner maes <werner.maes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On a system with XFS installed (using the RH 7.1 iso) I'm not able to
> > backup my files using ADSM (backup on tape). Without XFS there's no
> > problem.
>
> To put it midly, ADSM is a POS. For some reason it checks the
> filesystem type of the partition where the data it is trying to backup
> is located, finds it's "xfs", it has no idea what that is and bombs
> out.
>
> The local people in charge or the ADSM backups ended up exporting the
> filesystem to the same machine where it resides and mounting that over
> NFS (foo exports it's filesystems to foo). ADSM is happy with that.
An easier solution is to configure TSM to assume that the partition is
only a directory. For example, if you want backup of /var, which on
your machine is a partition, put this in the config file:
virtualmount /var
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