Backup / Filesystem access: Remount object after restart

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Hiya,

would it be possible to remount the mounted object (Backup & Restore / Filesystem access) after a restart of Axigen or the server?

I use backuppc to back up all e-mails in our domain regularly.
Everytime the server is rebooted or the axigen service is restarted, the mounted object is lost, causing backups to fail.

Cheers,
JK

2

Hello,

It is not recommended to keep the storage mounted all the time.

The best approach it will be to have a custom script that will mount the storage before backup job and unmount it after the job is finished.

For example you may use run-cli.py python script to mount the storage:

python run-cli.py "config server|CONFIG FTP-BACKUP|FILESYSTEM mount <MOUNT_POINT> domain <DOMAIN_NAME>|quit"

and to unmount:

python run-cli.py "config server|CONFIG FTP-BACKUP|FILESYSTEM unmount <MOUNT_POINT>|quit"

Or you may use ncat utility to mount the storage:

#!/bin/bash

adminUser="backupAdmin"
adminPass="backupAdminPass"

{
        echo -ne "user ${adminUser}\r\n"
        echo -ne "${adminPass}\r\n"
        echo -ne "config server\r\n"
        echo -ne "CONFIG FTP-BACKUP\r\n"
        echo -ne " FILESYSTEM mount <MOUNT_POINT> domain <DOMAIN_NAME>\r\n"
        echo -ne "quit\r\n"
} | nc 127.0.0.1 7000

exit 0

Regards,
Florin

3

Excellent!
I’ll have a look into that and how to integrate this with in the BackupPC jobs.

4

I have created a .sh script, with your nc example. I did have some issues with ssh and backuppc not doing as it should (which might very well have been my own stupidity…), but now it works like a charm!

So BackupPC is now backing up the e-mails every night using the Axigen Filesystem Access feature and your script.
Excellent!

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