Omniback 4 and RedHat Linux 7.2 sees no filesystems after client install

[Trever Furnish]

Ok, after finally getting all the rsh authentication problems out of the way with RedHat 7.2 (whose bright idea was it to put pam_nologin.so at the top of the pam.d/rsh files?!), and after creating a little shell script to wrap around nslookup and supply the -silent option, I've finally got the Omniback 4 Linux client installed seemingly successfully on a rh7.2 box... BUT Omniback doesn't seem to see any of the filesystems. :-(

I noticed that the only patch currently out for omni4 includes a fix for not recognizing Reiser filesystems, so I'm wondering if my problem is similar - does Omni4 recognize ext3 filesystems? All mine are ext3. I'm in the process of adding a drive so I can create an ext2 fs, but if someone has a solution, it'd be appreciated.

[Albert P Tobey · Accepted solution]

You have to edit /usr/omni/bin/.util to add ext3 filesystem support.

Search for "ext2" and you'll see a line like this:
/bin/df -P -t ext2 -t ext -t minix -t xiafs
Change it to include another '-t' for ext3 (I use reiserfs, so it's there):
/bin/df -P -t ext3 -t ext2 -t reiserfs -t xfs -t jfs 2>/dev/null |sed '1d' |awk '{print $6}'

Hope this works out for you - it did for me.

[Joe Robinson_2]

I tried this myself as I'm having the same problem; after adding the ext reference in .util I still am unable to expand the client (under 'filesystems') to select data for backup...

[Trever Furnish]

This worked for me. Have you tried closing the omniback gui and re-opening it? If you have any omniback services actually running on the client, have you restarted them?

Perhaps you could post your modified line from the .utils file?

Here's what mine currently contains:
/bin/df -P -t ext2 -t ext3 -t ext -t minix -t xiafs -t reiserfs 2>/dev/null | sed '1d' | awk '{print $6}'