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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
  4. Post Installation Health-Check
  5. Verify that the NFS Volume is correctly mounted
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Verify that the NFS Volume is correctly mounted

NetBackup for OpenStack mounts the NFS Backup Target to the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance and Compute nodes.

To verify those are correctly mounted it is recommended to do the following checks.

First df -h looking for /var/NetBackupOpenStack-mounts/<hash-value>

df -h
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Filesystem                       Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                         63G     0   63G   0% /dev
tmpfs                            63G   16K   63G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                            63G   35M   63G   1% /run
tmpfs                            63G     0   63G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/rhvh-rhvh--          7.1T  3.7G  6.8T   1% /
4.3.8.1--0.20200126.0+1
/dev/sda2                        976M  198M  712M  22% /boot
/dev/mapper/rhvh-var             15G  1.9G   12G  14% /var
/dev/mapper/rhvh-home            976M  2.6M  907M   1% /home
/dev/mapper/rhvh-tmp             976M  2.6M  907M   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/rhvh-var_log         7.8G  230M  7.2G   4% /var/log
/dev/mapper/rhvh-var_log_audit   2.0G   17M  1.8G   1% /var/log/audit
/dev/mapper/rhvh-var_crash       9.8G   37M  9.2G   1% /var/crash
30.30.1.4:/rhv_backup            2.0T  5.3G  1.9T   1% /var/NetBackupOpen
Stack-mounts/MzAuMzAuMS40Oi9yaHZfYmFja3Vw
30.30.1.4:/rhv_data              2.0T   37G  2.0T   2% /rhev/data-center/
mnt/30.30.1.4:_rhv__data
tmpfs                            13G     0   13G   0% /run/user/0
30.30.1.4:/rhv_iso               2.0T   37G  2.0T   2% /rhev/data-center/
mnt/30.30.1.4:_rhv__iso

Secondly do a read, write, and delete test as the user nova:nova (uid = 36 / gid = 36) from the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance and the RHV-Host.

su nova
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[nova@nbosvm MTAuMTAuMi4yMDovdXBzdHJlYW0=]$ touch foo
[nova@nbosvm MTAuMTAuMi4yMDovdXBzdHJlYW0=]$ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 nova nova 4096 Apr  2 17:27 nbosdm_tasks
-rw-r--r--  1 nova nova    0 Apr 23 12:25 foo
drwxr-xr-x  2 nova nova 4096 Apr  2 15:38 test-cloud-id
drwxr-xr-x 10 nova nova 4096 Apr 22 11:00 policy_1540698c-8e22-4dd1-
a898-8f49cd1a898c
drwxr-xr-x  9 nova nova 4096 Apr  8 15:21 policy_51517816-6d5a-4fce-
9ac7-46ee1e09052c
drwxr-xr-x  6 nova nova 4096 Apr 22 11:30 policy_77fb42d2-8d34-4b8d-
bfd5-4263397b636c
drwxr-xr-x  5 nova nova 4096 Apr 23 06:15 policy_85bf16ed-d4fd-49a6-
a753-98c5ca6e906b
[nova@nbosvm MTAuMTAuMi4yMDovdXBzdHJlYW0=]$ rm foo
[nova@nbosvm MTAuMTAuMi4yMDovdXBzdHJlYW0=]$ ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 nova nova 4096 Apr  2 17:27 nbosdm_tasks
drwxr-xr-x  2 nova nova 4096 Apr  2 15:38 test-cloud-id
drwxr-xr-x 10 nova nova 4096 Apr 22 11:00 policy_1540698c-8e22-4dd1-
a898-8f49cd1a898c
drwxr-xr-x  9 nova nova 4096 Apr  8 15:21 policy_51517816-6d5a-4fce-
9ac7-46ee1e09052c
drwxr-xr-x  6 nova nova 4096 Apr 22 11:30 policy_77fb42d2-8d34-4b8d-
bfd5-4263397b636c
drwxr-xr-x  5 nova nova 4096 Apr 23 06:15 policy_85bf16ed-d4fd-49a6-
a753-98c5ca6e906b

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