Backup on NFS and quotas

clopezi

• November 22, 2015 16:22

Hi, The backup directory (NFS) for my server is "/mnt/nfs/...", and the remote directory is IP:/home/backup. But when i'm going to enable quotas on my server, it says: Warning : Your system does not have a separate filesystem for backups. This may cause performance degradation during the backup process.
How can be possible? I tried fixquotas and same error again and again. Thanks!

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  Eric

  • November 22, 2015 21:37

  Can you dump your /etc/fstab here?

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  clopezi

  • November 23, 2015 05:09

  Of course:
  # /dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,usrjquota=quota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0 0 1 /dev/sda3 /home ext4 noatime,nodiratime,usrquota 1 2 /dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /tmp /var/tmp ext3 defaults,bind,noauto,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 176.31...:/home/copia /mnt/nfs/home nfs auto,noatime,nolock,bg,nfsvers=3,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0 tmpfs /tmp/apc tmpfs size=4096M 0 0 tmpfs /tmp/nginx_client tmpfs size=4096M 0 0
  Thanks!

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  acenetgeorge

  • November 23, 2015 14:56

  Quotas are not possible in NFS without some work. Quotas have to be enabled on the NFS server, then you have to manually deal with rpc.rquotad and rquotad commands to pass quota info remotely. We briefly looked into this a couple of years ago, and its not really worth all the manual effort. Easier to just add a 4TB hard drive to your server for backups :)

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  clopezi

  • November 23, 2015 15:16

  I may be badly explained. I want to enable quotas on my cPanel server, in /home, not in the NFS unit, but the server says that i have my backups in /home so disable quotas. Thanks!

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 12, 2016 03:20

  I may be badly explained. I want to enable quotas on my cPanel server, in /home, not in the NFS unit, but the server says that i have my backups in /home so disable quotas.

  
  Hello :) The message you are referring to is a warning, however quotas should still work for your accounts in /home based on the output of your /etc/fstab. Are quotas functioning as expected? Thank you.

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