Connecting an external USB Hard drive for backups

[alenguav]

I was wondering if I could connect a USB hard drive to my Proxmox host and use it for backups.

 

[fireon]

Yes this works easy and fine. Connect, mount, add directory in webinterface, ready

 

[RobFantini]

we use usb3.0 + usbmount .

once usbmount is installed, inserted drives are auto mounted to a predictable path.

$ aptitude show usbmount
Package: usbmount                        
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.0.22
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Maintainer: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 119 k
Depends: lockfile-progs, udev, util-linux (> 2.16)
Recommends: pmount
Description: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices
 This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts
 them when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types to consider, and mount
 options are configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically
 selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is
 automatically created. 
 
 The script that does the mounting is called by the udev daemon. Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) Linux
 kernel. 
 
 Firewire devices are also supported by USBmount. 
 
 USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an
 icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages instead.
Homepage: http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/

 

[fireon]

usbmount really, and automounter for nondesktopsystems? Great. Will test it.