{"id":235,"date":"2021-07-23T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-run-backups-on-locally-mounted-remote-filesystems\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:26:09","slug":"how-to-run-backups-on-locally-mounted-remote-filesystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-run-backups-on-locally-mounted-remote-filesystems\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Run Backups on Locally-Mounted Remote Filesystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Overview<\/h2>\n

This document describes how to run backups on locally-mounted remote filesystems.<\/p>\n

To mount or unmount a partition, you must place the partition in the \/etc\/fstab<\/code> file. This file contains a list of mountable file systems and their configuration options. The backup utility only mounts or unmounts partitions that appear in the \/etc\/fstab<\/code> file.<\/p>\n

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Warning:<\/div>\n
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  • We strongly<\/strong> recommend that you do not perform backups to remote filesystems (for example, NFS, CIFS, smbfs, or other types of network drive systems). While you can store a backup directly to a remote filesystem, cPanel & WHM does not<\/strong> support this configuration.<\/li>\n
  • We strongly<\/strong> recommend that you work with a qualified system administrator to manage this custom backup path to avoid potential risks.<\/li>\n
  • We are not<\/strong> responsible for any data loss that an attempt to perform the steps in this document causes.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Configure the filesystem<\/h2>\n

    If you use a mounted filesystem to store backups, we strongly<\/strong> recommend that you mount the system with the noexec<\/code> option. To do this, open the \/etc\/fstab<\/code> file with a text editor and edit its entry to resemble the following example:<\/p>\n

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    \/<\/span>dev<\/span>\/<\/span>sda5<\/span> \/<\/span>backup<\/span> ext3<\/span> defaults<\/span>,noexec<\/span> 0<\/span> 0<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
    The example above describes the following configuration options:<\/p>\n
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    • \/dev\/sda5<\/code> \u2014 The device.<\/li>\n
    • \/backup<\/code> \u2014 The default mount point.<\/li>\n
    • ext3<\/code> \u2014 The file system type.<\/li>\n
    • defaults,noexec<\/code> \u2014 The mount options.<\/li>\n
    • 0<\/code> \u2014 The dump options.<\/li>\n
    • 0<\/code> \u2014 The fsck<\/code> order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      Remount a backup disk<\/h2>\n
      To remount a backup disk while the system reboots, run the following command:<\/p>\n
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      mount<\/span> -<\/span>o<\/span> remount<\/span>,noexec<\/span> \/<\/span>backup<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Overview This document describes how to run backups on locally-mounted remote filesystems. To mount or unmount a partition, you must place the partition in the \/etc\/fstab file. This file contains a list of mountable file systems and their configuration options. The backup utility only mounts or unmounts partitions that appear in the \/etc\/fstab file. Warning: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}