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Re: XFS & ADSM

To: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <marcelo.magallon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS & ADSM
From: Trond Hasle Amundsen <t.h.amundsen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03 Jul 2001 12:52:47 +0200
Cc: werner maes <werner.maes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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"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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Trond

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