On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > (Note that that in this case I'm backing up TO the NFS mount, and it's > possible that the same NFS share could be mounted on the same spot > twice, depending on how long it takes for the daily backup job to run).
Following up on my own post, I starting digging into other backup scripts I've written over the years and ran across snippet on a FreeBSD 4.11 box: ### Perform daily backup of ~tillman # Clean up my backup partition # Note! We delay this by 2 hours because mount/umount cause mountd to be # HUPed, which is not atomic and causes a moment EPERM (permissions error) if # any other machine is currently trying to write via NFS sleep 7200 /sbin/umount /exports/tillman.backup1/ && \ /sbin/newfs -v -U /dev/vinum/tillman.backup1 &&\ /sbin/mount /exports/tillman.backup1/ && \ /sbin/dump 0f - /exports/tillman | (cd /exports/tillman.backup1; /sbin/restore -rf - ) If that still holds true in the -current src, the second mount will *definitely* cause me backup problems. I may have to move to keeping the NFS export always mounted, which is not ideal. -T -- Master Tung-shan interviewed a new monk: "What's you name?" "Pen-chi," the monk answered. "Say something more." "I won't." "Why not?" "My name is not Pen-chi." The Master was much impressed. - Zen Mondo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"