Setting up mountable backups on CentOS 7

The instructions provided with our Mountable Backups service for Virtual and Hybrid servers will not work on CentOS 7 due to the operating systems lack of portmap. This service was replaced with rpcbind.

To set up your mountable backup space you’ll need to run the following commands:

mkdir /backups

chkconfig rpcbind on

service rpcbind start

You’ll then need to install NFS Utils as this is not available with CentOS 7 by default.

yum install nfs-utils

From there, the last steps provided in the control panel will work. Below is an example of what this will look like:

echo "1234567-backups.vps-10.com:/backups/46.32.000.00/backups nfs rw,hard,intr,noexec,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=4,noatime,_netdev,nolock 0 0" >> /etc/fstab; mount -a

You can check that this set up correctly by running:

df -h

The output will look something like this:

1234567-backups.vps-10.com:/backups/12.345.6.789 8.4T 7.3T 882G 90% /backups

The usage shown here will show the disk space for our backup server, not the quota you have available.

Please contact our support team if you have any issues with this.