Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:44:57 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting multiple NFS shares to the same point Message-ID: <20070213194457.GI543@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <45D1D4E6.5090801@dial.pipex.com> References: <20070212170553.GA543@seekingfire.com> <54db43990702121104x7aea5f53tab517d32e85c9b19@mail.gmail.com> <20070212194204.GD543@seekingfire.com> <20070212194728.GE543@seekingfire.com> <45D1ADE3.1010802@dial.pipex.com> <20070213143848.GH543@seekingfire.com> <45D1D4E6.5090801@dial.pipex.com>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:10:30PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Tillman Hodgson wrote: > Yes, that's certainly an issue. Presumably you can lock down the > directory perms to be root only or root/operator though. Depending on > setup and money, backing up the backups to tape would give more safeguards. Definitely. The NFS appliance is the staging area before the backups hit a DLT4 library. > Can you mount sub-directories from the share as separate mounts? E.g. > create simple directories called daily, weekly and monthly on the share, > and mount each separately? Then you'd just have to move some files > around rather than re-create the share. Plus with a single share you > don't have to decide in advance how much space each specific directory > needs. Hey, there's a good idea. My effective directory layout remains the same but the seperate mounts means that I won't run into multiple mounts on the same mount point. I just tried it and it works great. Thanks, -T -- Page 461: Tools that are simple enough to use the first day are often a real pain after the first month. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_
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