Struggles with using a external USB drive with PBS

[kernull]

(PBS2.2.1 as guest on PVE7 host, drive is a WD Elements 16TB USB3 drive - I know the drive is good since it currently works great when mounted directly on the host itself.

First I tried passing the USB drive through to PBS and editing fstab to include the drive by UUID but it wouldnt mount at boot - Maybe I had the UUID wrong or something (I tried both UUIDs from lsblk and fdisk).

Then (on PBS) I tried manually mounting the drive to a particular directory and it mounts, but then I discover it's read-only even if mounted with `mount /dev/sda1 /meda/pveBackup` (tried -o rw flag as well)

/dev/sda1 partition fs type listed as "Linux"

I'm tired of manually backing up one machine at a time and wanted to setup PBS to be able to configure one job to backup all my vms so I only need to run it once, then store the external drive cold.

thanks for reading, any thoughts?
thanks

 

[Dunuin]

I'm tired of manually backing up one machine at a time and wanted to setup PBS to be able to configure one job to backup all my vms so I only need to run it once, then store the external drive cold.

Thats not really how PBS is meant to be used. For example, to actually delete old backups you would need to run a GC task with 24 hours between the prune and GC. With a single 16TB HDD this GC task probably would run for multiple days.

 

[kernull]

Thats not really how PBS is meant to be used. For example, to actually delete old backups you would need to run a GC task with 24 hours between the prune and GC. With a single 16TB HDD this GC task probably would run for multiple days.

Thanks for the input- Sounds like I'm going to be chalking PBS up- I also just discovered this in the PVE WebUI... maybe I could just figure out how to run this immediately somehow?

 

[Dunuin]

maybe I could just figure out how to run this immediately somehow?

You hit the "Run now" button.

 

[kernull]

You hit the "Run now" button.

I didnt even see that while it was grayed out