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Chapter 6
Administering the MARS Appliance
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To change the permissions of the exported directory, enter the following commands on the NetApp
Step 2
administrative host:
Mode 770 works only for MARS Appliances running the same software generation (4.x or 5.x). Use 775
Note
to support a mixed environment of 4.x to 5.3.x software and when performing migrations from 4.x to
5.3.x. Due to difference of UID/GID between the 4.x to 5.x releases, you must allow r-x so an appliance
running 5.3.x can import from files exported by a 4.x appliance.
Step 3
To verify that /mnt/YourMountPoint directory is writable by anyone, enter the following command:
To unmount the directory, enter the following command:
Step 4
Configure the MARS Appliance to use the path as archiving directory as described in
Step 5
Archive Setting for the MARS Appliance, page
Configure Lookup Information for the NFS Server
These common guidelines apply to NFS servers running on either Linux or Windows.
Note
Many services in the current Linux system, such as ssh and the NFS server, use nslookup to obtain the
hostname of the client. If the nslookup operation fails, the connection may fail or take a long time to
finish the negotiation.
For the pnarchive and pnrestore operations to succeed, the NFS server must obtain the hostname of the
MARS Appliance using its IP address. You can ensure that it obtains this information by doing one of
the following:
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The NFS Export Wizard - Read-Write Access page appears.
Click Add, and enter the IP address of the MARS Appliance in the Host to Add field, and click OK.
Click Add, and enter the IP address of the NetApp administrative host in the Host to Add field, click
OK, and then click Next.
The NFS Export Wizard - Root Access page appears.
Click Add, then and enter the IP address of the NetApp appliance (or the IP address of the
Linux/Unix server to serve this purpose) in the Host to Add field, click OK, and then click Next.
The NFS Export Wizard - Security page appears.
Select the Unix Style option, and click Next.
The NFS Export Wizard - Commit page appears.
Verify that the settings are correct, and then Commit.
mount NetAppIP:/PathToExport /mnt/YourMountPoint
chown nobody.nobody /mnt/YourMountPoint
chmod 775 /mnt/YourMountPoint
ls -l /mnt
umount /mnt/YourMountPoint
Configuring and Performing Appliance Data Backups
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