Backing up to an automounted server partition?
Is automount a safe bet to backup a laptop to an exported server partition? I had a problem that my local partition filled up where I believe backups were written to the automounted server partition.... On a laptop hard mounting the server may lead to stale mount points having their own problems... So what's a good policy here?
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Are you stuck using nfs/exported file system?
Any reasong to not use rsync and SSH? Is the laptop linux or windows? |
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- Direct cp is faster than rsync (quite frequent backups). - Linux (Debian). |
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NFS works okay.
If the server is not available it behaves a bit nasty. Another test is Code:
df <server-backup-directory>/. Code:
timeout 5 df <server-backup-directory>/. |
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