Problems with Ignite and CIFS

[Mark Harshman_1]

We are using CIFS to mount two NT servers on a L2000 box. I am having lots of problems sucessfully running an ignite backup with these shares mounted. I have tried everything i can think of, with no success. I cannot dismount them for the time it takes to create the ignite tape. I would appreciate any ideas from anyone. Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

Are these mounts on the "root" volumes?

What options are you using to do the make_recovery?

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harry

[Mark Harshman_1]

I am using the -A and -C parameters. The shares are mounted to sub-directories, on a filesystem thats part of our VG01 volume group. Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

From the man pages of make_recovery:
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Ignite-UX requires that: /, /stand, /sbin, /dev, and /etc reside on the root disk/volume group.

Ignite-UX allows the following standard directories to be outside the root volume group:

/opt, /var, /home, /tmp and /usr.

Considering the filesystems that can be moved outside the root volume group, only /usr is cosidered part of the Core-OS.

Therefore, if an attempt is made to archive the entire system (using -A), and /usr is contained on a Non-root volume group, that entire volume group will be included in the recovery archive.
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Is your mount point under one of these directories, or are any of these directories in another VG? What is the actual issue/error message?

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[Wodisch]

Hello Mark,

why not start using your "make*recovery" command of choice with the "-p" (preview) option first, to generate the list of files.
Then edit this list (/var/opt/ignite/...) and exclude those NT-shares.
Finally continue with the "-r" option to "make*recovery"...

Just an idea,
Wodisch

[Mark Harshman_1]

Thanks for the help. I'll try again and get back with more results. I have to re-try to get the error messages, i've lost the temp log file created. Thanks