Re: Detecting whether an NFS share is offline

Thanks for your responses, which are very helpful, and I apologize for
taking a week to reply.

(I've snipped the bulk of your posts for brevity.)

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Eric Anderson anderson-at-centtech.com |rsnapshot-discuss| wrote on
08/22/2006 09:20 PM:

> (snip)
> 
> Also, I wouldn't recommend mounting server A on B and server B on A,
> unless you like domino effects and loops.  One goes down, the other
> hangs, etc.
> 
> Eric

That's a good point. I can probably have the production server mount the
backups server temporarily when needed, and then unmount it.  For that
matter, I could also have the backup server mount the production server
only while it's doing a backup.

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David Cantrell david-at-cantrell.org.uk |rsnapshot-discuss| wrote on
08/23/2006 06:06 AM:

> (snip)
> $ echo $?

I assume $? means the same in Bash as it does in Perl ($CHILD_ERROR) ?
(Googling for $? was not very productive :)



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