On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/26/2011 4:55 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> The specific solution is 'umount -fl<dir|device>'. >> >> The general solution's a little stickier. >> >> I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues >> while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain >> automount maps and run the risk of issues with the automounter (I've >> seen large production environments in which the OOM killer would >> arbitrarily select processes to kill ....). >> >> Monitoring of client and server NFS processes helps. If it's the filer >> heads which are failing, and need warrants it, look into HA failover >> options. >> >> Soft mounts as mentioned won't hange processes, but may result in data >> loss. This is most critical in database operations (where atomicity is >> assumed and generally assured by the DBMS). If the issue is one of >> re-running a backup job, and you can get a clear failure, risk would be >> generally mitigated. > > Actually, since the original question involved access to backups, I > should have given my usual answer which is that backuppc is the thing to > use for backups and it provides a web interface for restores (you pick > the historical version you want and either tell it to put it back to the > original host or you can download a tarball through the browser). Very > nice for self-serve access. It does want to map complete hosts to > owners that have permission to access them but with a little work you > make different areas of a shared system look like separate hosts. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ BackupPC doesn't intergrate into cPanel. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532