Adding USB Drive for backups

[CCWTech]

I followed this to create an area for my USB drive to backup to, however it doesn't seem like this can be used for the "Backup" feature of proxmox. Is this an okay way to set up a drive for backups or does it need to be mounted using shell? I'm trying to stay within the application as much as possible for consistency.

1) Inside Proxmox, open a Shell on the Node with the disk to provision; Identify its name: ls /dev/disk/by-id
2) Clear the disk: gdisk /dev/disk/by-id/ | enter ‘d’ to delete and ‘w’ to commit
3) Back in Proxmox, on the Node->Disks>LVM-> Create Volume Group -> Select disk -> Name It -> OK
4) Node -> Disks -> LVM-Thin -> Create Thinpool -> Select Disk -> Name It -> OK
Done.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Back in Proxmox, on the Node->Disks>LVM-> Create Volume Group -> Select disk -> Name It -> OK

For backup, you would create a "Directory" based storage with ext4 or XFS as filesystem, not a LVM one.
While LVM could be used indirectly it isn't required and would only add a layer here, Directory storage is just simpler.

 

[CCWTech]

Got it. That's what we ended up doing... formatting for xfs and mounting. Thanks!