Rear backup fails during the backup at NFS mount step: ERROR: Mount command failed - Error with Remote I/O error
Issue
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During the Rear backup on a NFS server (AIX), the process fails with this error:
ERROR: Mount command 'mount -v -t nfs -o rw,noatime 192.168.1.1:/backup/tmp/rear.Nfahytjkyfg4GTH6/outputfs' failed.
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With the argument
-dD
of the Rear command, you will have the debug output in the /var/log/rear/.log file:++ eval mount -v -t nfs -o rw,noatime 192.168.1.1:/backup/tmp/rear.Nfahytjkyfg4GTH6/outputfs +++ mount -v -t nfs -o rw,noatime 192.168.1.1:/backup/tmp/rear.Nfahytjkyfg4GTH6/outputfs mount.nfs: mount(2): Remote I/O error mount.nfs: Remote I/O error mount.nfs: timeout set for Mon Apr 15 10:05:14 2021 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'vers=4,addr=191.168.1.1,clientaddr=192.168.1.10' ++ StopIfError 'Mount command '\''mount -v -t nfs -o rw,noatime 192.11681.1:/backup/tmp/rear.Nfahytjkyfg4GTH6/outputfs'\'' failed.'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Rear
- NFS
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