SD card as backup medium

[Telesight]

I have installed a 16GB SD Ext4 card in my cardreader, that I want to use as backup medium.
When I start in Datacenter > tab Storage > add Directory and select /dev/sdb1 it seems that the directory for storage is created.

1. When I go to the SD storage and I look at the tab Summary, the size of the storage on the SD card is only 1,73 GB.
2. When I open the tab Content I see a running hourglass and this message: mkdir /dev/sdb1: File exists at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage.pm line 1830 (500)

What is going wrong?


Configuration:
Proxmox VE 2.0rc1
SSD 120 GB
4 GB RAM
FS Ext4
Container: Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64

 

[dietmar]

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When I start in Datacenter > tab Storage > add Directory and select /dev/sdb1

Sorry, but /dev/sdb1 is a block devce, not a directory! You need a filesystem directory to store backups instead.

 

[Telesight]

@dietmar
Sorry, I fully misunderstood this storage functionality, I thought it created a directory on a drive ...
I created a backup directory and mounted the SD card to it, now it works and the "diskspace" is also correct.
Thanks for your reaction.