We acquired a cluster of NetApp filers a few months ago with
only an iSCSI license (no NFS or CIFS access), intending to use it for data
volumes on our Linux and Windows hosts and later for virtualization. We
have one production Gentoo system mounting a data volume from the filer using
open-iscsi, and we have several other Gentoo and Ubuntu systems that we would
like to configure that way as well.
We also have an Ubuntu system connected to a tape library.
We would like to take snapshots of the data-volumes that need to be backed up, mount
those snapshots on the backup host, and do an incremental backup from the mounted
filesystem.
Probably we would partition each LUN with one Linux
partition, and put an ext3 or reiserfs filesystem with a cluster-unique label
on that partition. Then we could take a set of snapshots for the backup, map
all the snapshot LUNs to the backup-host, do iSCSI discovery on the
backup-host, mount each partition (listed in a configuration-file) with a “
Has anyone gotten a setup like this to work?
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David Lee Lambert
Software Developer, Precision
Motor Transport Group, LLC
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