Can't boot because of (corrupted?) external disk used for backups

[mbc]

Hi, I have a very simple setup consisting of an SSD (where I have all the VM and the system in general) and an external hard drive where I store backups of the VM's.

The power went out and when the server rebooted it entered in safe mode.

The first think I see is that it is trying to mount storageprox, which is the drive that contains all the backups:




I don't care about the backups as long as the rest works. So how do I go around that? Because as I see it the system doesn't boot because the backup list that is stored on the HDD is a requerment. So if I could tell proxmox to ignore the backups external hard drive I should be able to boot.

 

[Dunuin]

You can enter your password so it will allow you to login while in emergency mode and comment out the line in the /etc/fstab that mounts your backup disk. Then linux won'T try to mount it when booting so it shouldn't fail.

BTW: A new UPS only costs 50€ and will prevent loosing data/disks due to power outages. So the server got some minutes to run of the backup battery while the server is doing a automatic graceful shutdown.

 

[mbc]

You can enter your password so it will allow you to login while in emergency mode and comment out the line in the /etc/fstab that mounts your backup disk. Then linux won'T try to mount it when booting so it shouldn't fail.

BTW: A new UPS only costs 50€ and will prevent loosing data/disks due to power outages. So the server got some minutes to run of the backup battery while the server is doing a automatic graceful shutdown.

Thank you, really. That was exactly what I needed.


As for the UPS you are totally right. Worse thing is that I have an UPS laying and I'm not going to explain why I haven't installed yet because I will sound even more stupid.