It is a DLink DNS-325 which locked down so no chance of putting the SD there. I guess I could reassign the SD uid:gid however that would upset some existing backups on local disks.
Best -Chris- > On 10 May 2023, at 19:11, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote: > > On 5/10/23 11:19, Chris Wilkinson wrote: >> This is not really a Bacula question but I'm hoping someone has come across >> this when using NFS to mount a NAS storage device. >> As I understand it, the UID:GID on the remote storage and the local SD >> daemon must match or permission denied results. My NAS has NFS v3 and this >> can't be changed. >> I can create a new user on the NAS but I have no control over what UID:GID >> it chooses and will not be the same as the SD daemon user:group. >> I believe NFS v3 doesn't have the capability to map UIDs; that facility is >> v4 only. >> Has anyone found a workaround for this? > > > What is the NAS? I'm guessing if you don't have the ability to control > UIDs/GIDs on the NAS you probably can't install a SD on it directly either. > NFS-mounting your Bacula backup storage is usually a bad idea unless you have > no alternative. > > Honestly, in my experience off-the-shelf consumer/prosumer NAS appliances are > utterly horrible from a management perspective — you WILL do things THEIR > way, or not at all. I tried a consumer NAS a few uears ago — I'm blanking on > the brand right now — and had to return it because not only was it useless > for what I wanted, as well as having some pretty ghastly security issues. > (Like making every file on every share world-read/write via NFS.) > > > If you can't control the UID/GID assigned by the NAS, can you change the > UID/GID of your storage daemon to match what the NAS assigns? That would at > least solve the permission problems. > > > -- > Phil Stracchino > Babylon Communications > ph...@caerllewys.net > p...@co.ordinate.org > Landline: +1.603.293.8485 > Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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