26 Jan
2011
26 Jan
'11
1:31 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
That won't really work. The NFS clients run cPanel and we need a way for end-users to have full access to their backups all the time. We used to run backup over FTP, but then when a client wanted to restore data one of the techs first had to download it from the backup server and then let the client restore it. So I'm trying to cut down on unnecessary support tasks.
Double check that autofs isn't what you want, as I suspect you're wrong in discounting it. With autofs, a user is free to access files in a currently unmounted nfs path, as autofs will mount it dynamically as required. But it generally copes a lot better than just static NFS mounts.
jh