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