We backup our Oracle databases using RMAN and then write the backup pieces out to an NFS share. This has always worked well, but RMAN started complaining that the NFS share was not mounted with the correct options when we upgraded to Oracle 10G. After some poking around in the docs I finally came up [...]
Mounting filesystems in RHEL is pretty straightforward and easy. Occasionally, however, you will not want the filesystem to remain mounted all the time, but rather to automatically mount for a set period of time only when it is needed. Because of networking overhead, and the general unreliability of networks, NFS mounts are a good [...]
Whenever you’re using NFS mount points, it’s really nice to use some type of automounter. Linux and FreeBSD use AMD to accomplish this, but Solaris uses automountd, and it’s fun and easy to use… Here is an example of a configuration that will automatically mount an NFS share and unmount it after 5 minuets of [...]
With the last Samba upgrade, we started having problems copying files to our Samba share from the Mac OSX finder.When attempting the copy we received an error reading: “The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.”
There were no permissions issues, which was substantiated by our unhindered [...]
