Good Morning Jeff, There are several issues here.
1) we do not know how you are trying to use the mounted filesystem, so we may miss some requirement. 2) I have used a nfs mount of a filesystem from a NetApp NAS system to a windows server with no issues in the past, so that should be doable. Look at microsoft support site for info on that. 3) The local netbackup services are run by default with the local "SYSTEM" account. This account is a god on the local server, but has zipo privs for remote filesystems, at least cifs one's. I have not checked NFS. 4) You can work around issue 3, by using an account that has access to the remote cifs mounted filesystem and has access to whatever else it needs on the local client. With most clients you can use an account that is in the local admin group to enable the backing up the system state for the local server and has acl's for the mounted filesystem. 5) You can add a script that is called by net backup's exit for backups and restores to test that the remote cifs filesystem is mounted and mount it if is not. 6) You can add a service that starts before the netbackup service(s) and mounts the remote filesystem on the local system, if you need the remote filesystem to be mounted before the netbackup service(s) start. len boyle On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Lightner, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > I have two data deduplication devices that do NAS style shares. They > can do NFS or CIFS (or both at same time using different shares). The > NFS shares have been there for quite some time and I successfully mount > those to various HP-UX and Linux servers with no issue. > > > > We need to try to mount to a Windows 2008 R2 server. Today I got as far > as being able to login to the Windows server and map the share to a drive > letter then verify I could read and write from it. > > > > The issue is that CIFS mount: > > a) Is only available to the user I logged in as when I did the map > on the Windows side. (This was also true when I had the Windows Admin do > it using the domain administrative account.) > > b) Is not available to the NetBackup services that were already > started automatically at boot. It is these services that will be writing > to and reading from the mounts for backups. > > > > So my question is how can I setup an automatic mount of a share in Windows > at boot AND insure that services started will have access to read and write > to it? > > > > We did in fact try to enable NFS Services on the Windows server Friday but > for whatever reason it puked on doing that each time and forced a reboot. > If someone knows how to enable that on Windows 2008 R2 as well as how to > make a mount there persistent (similar to the way it would be if in fstab > on UNIX/Linux) I’d be happy to go that route instead. > > > > Please don’t point me at links that “might address” this if you haven’t > already tried them and know they work. After working most of last week on > this I’ve not found anything that really solves it in many web searches. > > > > > > > > Athena®, Created for the Cause™ > > Making a Difference in the Fight Against Breast Cancer > > _________________________________________________________ > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged > > or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended > > recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, > > copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information > > is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic > > transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that > > you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > >
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