Ok, I am having a problem with the HP-UX find command, no suprise there. First, installing a capable find "not the version that is included with the distro" is not an option in this case.

I am using a find command to build a file list to be backed up to tape. I also have an NFS mounted filesystem that sometimes hangs. I'm not yet quite sure why but that's another issue.

When the find runs and the NFS mount is hung, the find hangs as well.

-fsonly, -only, -fstype, -prune, etc..... all "visit" the NFS mount then disregard it according to the switches and the values provided.

I have searched and searched for a way to exclude NFS filesystems from the find without "visiting" the NFS mount without any luck so far.

Unmounting would be an easy fix of course but the customer doesn't want to do that and the process has to be done at night with no interaction.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

I have two possible ideas. 1) Use several find commands and redirect the output of each command to add to the same file ( >> ).
2) In the script that uses the find command, remount an empty directory over the NFS mount point before using the find command.

The problem is, the find switches will still "visit and read" the NFS mount.

Also, if the NFS mount is healthy, they want it to be included with the backup.

I was considering changing the script to check the NFS mount for health.

if i can read the mount do
run find normally
if not
unmount the nfs if I can
if can't unmount
do something different
fi

However, my customer wants to use the GUI options for the find that are built in to the software that they are using. Basically it's an interface with check boxes for find options that they can clickity-click.