[nflug] Making A CD Into A Zip File While Preserving Permissions (A Bit OT)...

DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com
Tue Feb 21 10:12:31 EST 2006


Thanks! I got it working using NFS.

-Dan

>>> Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com 02/17/06 4:01 PM >>>
check if rpcbind, nfsd, mountd, lockd, and statd are running.

ps -aef |egrep "(rpc|nfs|mount|lock|stat)"


DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> I'm getting the following error:
> 
> nfs mount: local_host: : RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Unable to
receive
> nfs mount: retrying: /mnt
> 
> *Yes, I did change the "local_host" to the server name ;-)
> 
> 
>>>>Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com 02/17/06 3:39 PM >>>
> 
> are you planning on running NFS over the internet? i would not
> recommend 
> that if you where. as long as the remote server can talk/ping the
> remote 
> machine this isn't a problem.
> 
> on the local server:
> - insert the cd into the drive, it should mount at /cdrom/cdrom0.
> - add "share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0" to /etc/dfs/dfstab
>    echo "share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0" >> /etc/dfs/dfstab
> - start nfs.server script
>    /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
> - test that it's shared
>    mount local_server:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt
>    ls /mnt
> - if you see the contents of the cdrom unmount the nfs mount.
>    umount /mnt
> 
> on the remote server:
> - mount the nfs filesystem
>    mount local_server:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt
> - copy the cd to a remote directory
>    cd /mnt; tar -cf - . |(cd /dir/with/alot_of_space; tar -xf -)
> - when copy is complete unmount the nfs mount
>    umount /mnt
> 
> enjoy.
> 


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