HI,
unfortunately I have found no matching Post in this Forum, if you may provide a link to a thread I will dig in it myself.
Till then.
I want to backup my Proxmox offsite via usb Disk. I have a G-Dock ev Solo (see also Manufacturer Description)
Now I have 7 2TB HDD drives.
Monday-Friday, one Friday odd week number, one Friday even week number, and one per month.
Soo every Drive is made to a large ext4 disk with mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda (where sda is the corresponding letter, since it is indeed the only SATA drive in the host)
Ideally I would want the drives to be mounted by themselves.
I created a Directory in Proxmox for Backup via Datacenter > Storage and made it VZDump pathing to /mnt/backup
If I manually run
mount /dev/sda /mnt/backup
I can see it mounted, I can backup onto it, I can unmount it and it correctly vanishes, I can mount with the same mount again and see and restore the backups again.
So far so good.
Now I would like to make all Disks mount automatically on insert to /mnt/backup
I found some people doing it with editing /etc/fstab and a mount by uuid. But I am not sure, if I should edit /etc/fstab
I read some people not being able to boot afterwards and I really don't want to fuck up my PVE.
I tried the gloryfied pve6-usb-automount but it really just does not do anythin on my new 6.3-3 machine. none of the drives is getting recognized by the automount (rebooted naturally after install)
Many guides or topics only have one USB Disk and are old. I really want an easy solution.
I could just run the mount via cron at 10PM, while the Backup starts 10:30PM, and umount at like 8AM .
But tbh I don't really like this way either. I think it's a bit unclean.
So I really hope someone here has some better way.
Feel free to explain it a bit, I really want to learn why I am doing certain commands and not just copy paste your solution.
EDIT:
I am SO SO SO sorry.
I am a big buffoon.
I unplugged the G-Dock, plugged it back in an e voilá the Disks automatically get mounted as /media/sda
Backup and restore works. Props to the pve-usb-automount crew
unfortunately I have found no matching Post in this Forum, if you may provide a link to a thread I will dig in it myself.
Till then.
I want to backup my Proxmox offsite via usb Disk. I have a G-Dock ev Solo (see also Manufacturer Description)
Now I have 7 2TB HDD drives.
Monday-Friday, one Friday odd week number, one Friday even week number, and one per month.
Soo every Drive is made to a large ext4 disk with mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda (where sda is the corresponding letter, since it is indeed the only SATA drive in the host)
Ideally I would want the drives to be mounted by themselves.
I created a Directory in Proxmox for Backup via Datacenter > Storage and made it VZDump pathing to /mnt/backup
If I manually run
mount /dev/sda /mnt/backup
I can see it mounted, I can backup onto it, I can unmount it and it correctly vanishes, I can mount with the same mount again and see and restore the backups again.
So far so good.
Now I would like to make all Disks mount automatically on insert to /mnt/backup
I found some people doing it with editing /etc/fstab and a mount by uuid. But I am not sure, if I should edit /etc/fstab
I read some people not being able to boot afterwards and I really don't want to fuck up my PVE.
I tried the gloryfied pve6-usb-automount but it really just does not do anythin on my new 6.3-3 machine. none of the drives is getting recognized by the automount (rebooted naturally after install)
Many guides or topics only have one USB Disk and are old. I really want an easy solution.
I could just run the mount via cron at 10PM, while the Backup starts 10:30PM, and umount at like 8AM .
But tbh I don't really like this way either. I think it's a bit unclean.
So I really hope someone here has some better way.
Feel free to explain it a bit, I really want to learn why I am doing certain commands and not just copy paste your solution.
EDIT:
I am SO SO SO sorry.
I am a big buffoon.
I unplugged the G-Dock, plugged it back in an e voilá the Disks automatically get mounted as /media/sda
Backup and restore works. Props to the pve-usb-automount crew
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