On 1/26/11 5:35 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Lorenzo Quatrini > <lorenzo.quatrini at gmail.com> wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers ha scritto: >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo<ml2edwin at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the >>> remove NFS server is offline? >>> >> I would use a different approach: use autofs, then the share is mounted "on the >> fly" only when needed, and unmounted after a while of not using it anymore. >> Is this fine with your environment? >> > > > 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. I don't see why the automounter wouldn't work for this, but you can mount with the soft,bg options to keep from hanging. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com