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Freebsd Mount a NAS via SMB / CIFS

by Vivek Gite · 1 comment

Q. I want to use our NAS server to store backups. Our NAS supports FTP and CIFS / SMB sharing technology. How do I mount and store files on NAS using FreeBSD? How do I automate entire procedure using a shell script? Is that doable? If so, what’s the easiest solution ftp or CIFS?

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Linux / UNIX: Cannot Preserve Ownership Error when Files are Moved or Copied

by Vivek Gite · 0 comments

Q. I’m using CentOS Linux. I’m getting an error – Cannot Preserve Ownership, when I try to copy files from Linux ext3 to FAT32 or files moved to an NFS NAS server mount point. How do I fix this error and copy / move files?
A. Generally you use command like cp or my to copy [...]

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Can I use tape drive with XEN VPS / Guest oses?

by Vivek Gite · 2 comments

Q. I’ve CentOS 5.0 server running XEN kernel. VPS Guest is Linux distribution. How do I use tape drive with XEP Guest os?
A. You can’t use character devices such as tape drives in Xen guests. This is limitation of Xen. It doesn’t have the ability to export character devices to multiple guests oses.
However for backup [...]

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Howto: Backup CentOS / Fedora Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux server system