Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

To mount a remote NFS drive

1. Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu using your administrator's credentials.
2. Type the Main > Manage> MountPoints command.

   The appliance lists all the commands under in the MountPoints menu.

3. To mount your remote NFS drive, type the following command:

   Mount RemotePath MountPoint [FileSystemType] [options]

   This command includes the following parameters:

   	RemotePath	MountPoint	[FileSystemType]	[Options]
   Description	Provide the address of a device or a directory to be mounted on to your appliance.	Provide the name of the local mount point. This appears as a subdirectory where the NFS drive is mounted. After the command runs successfully, this subdirectory is created under /mnt/remote. Note: An error may be displayed if the full directory path (example: '/tmp/garry') is specified instead of just a mount point name (example: garry).	Specify the type of the device to be mounted.	Specify any additional options to be passed to the appliance along with the Mount command.
   Format	HOST:DIRECTORY Note: A short hostname is also supported. Ensure that the short hostname can be resolved.	A subdirectory name under /mnt/remote. The subdirectory may or may not exist and is created under /mnt/remote by default.		You can only use options specific for mounting the NFS drive.
   Parameter type	Mandatory	Mandatory	Optional	Optional
   Example	appesx5. ros. veritas.com :/build1	garry	NFSv3 or any other supported type by the underlying Mount command.	ro is used to mount the device as read only.

4. The appliance mounts your remote NFS drive.

   Note:

   If you mount a remote share and then restart the appliance, the mount is re-established when the appliance starts. The mount points are persistent across all the restart operations and there is no exception to this rule.

To list and view the mounted devices

1. Log in to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu using your administrator credentials.
2. Type the Main > Manage > MountPoints command.

   The appliance lists all the commands under the MountPoints menu.

3. To view the list of mounted devices use the following command:

   List [Type]

   When you specify the value for the [Type] parameter as [All], the appliance displays all the available mount points along with the NFS drives. If this parameter is not provided, this command lists all the NFS mount points.