>>>>> On Sat, 19 May 2007 16:11:16 +0000 (UTC), Colin Waring said: > > Hi folks, > I'm sure this one's fairly simple but its eluding me at the moment. > I'm setting up a service for backing up client data and Bacula seems like > quite > a good way of doing it as we run a FreeBSD server. I especially like the way > you > configure the backups server side so noone can fiddle with it as those pesky > clients always do :) If it works out, I'm quite happy to incorporate a > donation > for the project into our billing! > > Right now though I'm testing it at our own site and I've hit a bit of a snag. > We have a NAS box running NFS mounts. I have some data stored on the box > which I > want to back up. The problem is that the NFS mounts are password protected to > stop other people on the network just browsing the sensitive stuff. > > The machine running the fd has the path mounted as a drive but I imagine that > the fd doesn't have access to these credentials as it has to run as the system > account. So how do I do it? > > I don't think there's a way to specify credentials in the FileSet definition > on > the server, and I'd rather not keep all the passwords there anyway. Is there a > proper way to supply credentials? > > I've tried: > > fd service running as system > fd service running as local user already authenticated to the NAS box > I've also tried accessing the box directly (//192.168.x.x/path/to/share) and > via > a mapped network drive (Y:/path/to/share) > > Nothing I try seems to get access to the share. I can envisage client > situations > where the nfs mount is done all sorts of different ways..passwords synched > through Active Directory, no AD at all with passwords synched to user > accounts, > and sometimes no synchronisation at all so without a way to specify > credentials > then I'm pretty much stuffed!
Maybe you can use a client run before job script to mount a drive using Windows NET USE command? BTW, do you mean SMB rather than NFS? __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
