Kemp, Larry wrote: > Mucho thanks guys... > > 1) We have disabled the antivirus for the entire drive (which is a RAID5 > diskarray). I will try to have Bacula send it job to this mounted system now > and see if CENT OS comes back with any CIFS errors. > > 2) I did try originally editing the /etc/fstab to mount the remote share as > SMB in as many different ways that I could find online. But none seemed to > work for me. It seemed to be a little bit different across Linux distros and > versions, as well as SMB versions. And in the end, I simply got CIFS to work > and had just not yet figured out the exact verbiage for SMB to work in > /etc/fstab to mount /mnt/remotewinserver automagically at boot. I did read up > on SMB as well to see if I was missing something small. If you have a > combination that has worked for you Nate, please do share sir, I would be > most gracious on my end...believe me. The remote sharer is a Windows 2003 > Server running 2 64bit processors, but the OS was installed as 32bit for > whatever reason. > > 3) Unfortunately Windows claimed the big fat HP Storage server before CENT OS > could (sorry for this starting to sound like a Windows whinefest too). Having > said that, Win2k3 Server runs the array already backing up all Windows > servers using Backup Exec. I am ofcourse trying use CENT OS and Bacula but > needed large diskspace. Had we had another array/server I could use CENT OS > would have no problem running I am certain. So as a second method I am > creating a VM running CENT OS and Bacula on the large S:\drive of the Windows > server that has an expandable VMDK drive (VMWare). This way my CENT OS/Bacula > VM can grow as big as it needs to and to CENT OS and Bacula the storage > device is just natively /storage-array. At least that is one plan anyway. > > > We are also "talking about" just buying the Symantec Linux client for > backups. But the original goal was to use CENT OS for this since our > production systems are CENT OS. > > Okay that's everything I think. Thanks for the help thus far. >
How about getting getting them to carve out a chunk of the storage server through iscsi for dedicated Centos use. Would bypass most of that Windows share crappola. -- tkb _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
