Kemp, Larry wrote:
Mucho thanks guys...
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.
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.
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.