Nfs considerations – Storix Software SBAdmin AIX System Recovery Guide User Manual

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To restore from a NFS mounted backup the Server IP Address, the Client IP Address, the Network
Device
, and the Share on Server fields must be filled in. If the client requires a gateway to reach the NFS
server enter the Gateway Address. When selecting the network device, use the F4 key to list the adapters
available on the system. The option to Apply Network Configuration to Restored System indicates
whether you wish to migrate the above client network settings to the restored system.

If you receive a message that no network devices are found, then you probably
need to

Load Additional Network Device Modules

.

You should enter “y” in the NFS Version 4 option if the share you will be accessing is to be mounted using
NFS v4 (NFS v2, v3, and v4 are supported). The Mount Options field allows you to enter any mount
command “-o” options necessary to mount the remote share. Press F3 or ESC to save the options and
configure the network.

After entering the above NFS mount configuration options, select the

Select NFS Mount Backup

option.

Selecting this option will mount the remote share locally and list all system backups found in the share.
Only backups of type

FULL SYSTEM

will be listed. If any are found a screen similar to the following will be

shown:

NFS Considerations

SBAdmin in no way configures the remote NFS server. It must be configured to allow the client IP you are
using read access to the files in the share.

The share is mounted using the options you provided and the mount command as follows:

Storix System Backup Administrator

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