Mount NFS share for archive/backup

MineOS Turnkey
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Setup a turnkey installation in a VM on ESXi & on the linux learning curve (way down at the bottom, honestly.)

I wanted to get the backups out of the VM and onto my NAS. Installed NFS client, setup mounts in /etc/fstab but they won’t mount on reboot. mount -a links them up fine.

Also, once they’re mounted the web UI can’t seem to access them. No backups/archives are listed and the button generates an error with no clear clue in the mineos.log file. Doesn’t seem to be a permissions issue. Google hasn’t yielded much so far.

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I do the same thing, only with samba and a windows share. I also had problems with the archives failing. For me it was a naming issue.

in /usr/games/minecraft you have a file named mineos.js

in line 929 you will find where Mineos builds the filename:

var filename = 'server-{0}_{1}.tgz'.format(self.server_name, strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S'));

It might be that your nfs-share do not accept ‘:’ (colon) as a character in a filename, edit this file so that the filenames do not use colons:

for example:

var filename = 'server-{0}_{1}.tgz'.format(self.server_name, strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'));

Then again, NAS’es usually use some sort of *nix OS for their NFS shares, and *nix have no problems with ‘:’ (colon) as a filename character.

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No dice on that one. Any log files I can dig into? mineos.log only gives me a line like:

> {"level":"info","message":"[HG] x.x.x.x issued command : \"backup\"","timestamp":"2016-02-09T20:47:12.826Z"}
> {"level":"info","message":"[HG] received request \"backup\"","timestamp":"2016-02-09T20:47:12.827Z"}
> {"command":"backup","uuid":"x","time_initiated":1455050832827,"success":false,"err":1,"time_resolved":1455050832906,"level":"error","message":"[HG] command \"backup\" errored out:","timestamp":"2016-02-09T20:47:12.906Z"}
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Hi again.

As I said, NFS mounts to NAS usually should not be affected by the naming issue, I use SAMBA to mount a windows share.
Since I do not have any NFS-NAS available, I havent really looked into NFS mounting to much.

I do expect a rights issue. Please check how the NFS share is mounted to your MineOS server. Chek that it connects to a share that is not read only, and that the MineOS user has write rights to it. Easiest way: Go to where you mounted you NAS NFS, and try to create a file while logged into MineOS with SSH. If you can create and save a file there, you have write access, and MineOS should also have for Archiving and Backups. If you cannot, you lack the rights to write, and cant create files.

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Wow, yep. It’s a rights problem. I ran ls -l and saw all the letters filled in and thought I was good.

The mounts are rw, but I’ve got something goofed up. I’ll read up that direction, thanks!

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Feb  5 23:25 archive -> /mnt/archive/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   12 Feb  5 23:26 backup -> /mnt/backup/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root mc   4096 Jan 31 14:51 import
drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 31 17:25 profiles
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Feb  2 01:36 servers

I had the mounts directly in /var/games/minecraft but moved them elsewhere and tried symlinks from there for troubleshooting.