Adding Harddrive For Backups

[EnesCan20]

Hi,

Sorry for my bad english.

i recently setup an proxmox server and added 1 SSD Harddrive and 1 HDD Drive for virtual machines (as LVM)

Now i want to add a 2tb HDD for automatich backups so i tried to setup it as a 'directory' but that didn't work.

Is there an way to add an disk for only backups?

I hope someone can help me out.

Thaks in advance

 

[dcsapak]

Now i want to add a 2tb HDD for automatich backups so i tried to setup it as a 'directory' but that didn't work.

what did you try, and what did not work?

 

[EnesCan20]

i tryed to mount the harddrive and than try to add it as a directory (cause only directory can store vzdump backupfiles) but that didn't work. if i try i
get this error:

 

[dcsapak]

no, the datacenter->storage is for adding already existing storages (not creating new ones)
what you need is under node -> disks -> directory, there you format a disk with a filesystem (and let it create a storage definition for you)

 

[EnesCan20]

hmm i cannot find it here is a ss:

 

[dcsapak]

then you do not have the latest upgrades -> upgrade

 

[EnesCan20]

yes im running proxmox 5.2
and is up to date

 

[tom]

yes im running proxmox 5.2
and is up to date

Your GUI shows an old version. Either your browser is showing a cached page (reload, clear browser cache) or you did miss to upgrade to latest version.

 

[EnesCan20]

i fixed it by following this tutorial: https://www.debiantutorials.com/add-a-second-hard-disk/ and than i added the harddisk as directory and now i can make backups on the harddrive