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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:24:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Agent Drek <drek@smashpow.net>
To:        Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Tivoli TSM client on FreeBSD??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0211031218230.79976-100000@bang.smashpow.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021103032521.GA29256@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Paul Mather wrote:

<snip>

>
> I'm guessing that one complication with using the Linux client is that
> when looking up the mount points for filesystems, it would actually be
> rooting them at /compat/linux, and not at the "real" mount points
> above there (e.g., it would back up files under /compat/linux/usr
> instead of /usr).  So, it's not clear that the Linux client could be
> used to archive or back up a FreeBSD system properly anyway.
>

With the Omniback linux client I was able to backup /usr by creating a
union mount point /usr-bkp :

mount_union /usr /usr-bkp

I also had to symlink /usr/compat/linux/etc/mtab -> /etc/fstab to make
Omniback happy (and hack a silly shell script that it uses).

cheers,

--
   Derek Marshall

Smash and Pow Inc > 'digital plumber'
http://www.smashpow.net


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