USB Drive on Proxmox

[Mansaylon]

Hi

I'm looking desperately for instructions how I of binding an external USB hard disk in Proxmox.
I want to make automatic backups on this drive.

All I've found is how to install Proxmox from USB stick.

Bye
Mansaylon

 

[m.ardito]

Hi, simply mount the usb drive, then go in web gui to datacenter > storage and add a "directory", with the mount folder.
Select backup for storage content type (at least)

Remember this can't be shared for backups... it's only seen liek that on each cluster node, (but locally)

Marco

 

[Mansaylon]

Is this the same principle as when mounting a second Hard disk?

; Platte partitionieren / für neue Platte p als primary nehmen
cfdisk /dev/sdb
New -> Primary
Write
Quit
; formatieren
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
; mounten
mkdir /local1
mount /dev/sdb1 /local1
; fstab anpassen, damit die HD nach Neustart wieder gemountet wird
nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1 /local1 ext3 rw 0 0
mit 'df' oder 'df -h' sollte die neue Platte nun als local1 dargestellt werden
Danach in Proxmox selber unter Storage ein neues Medium hinzufügen (Directory).
Datacenter -> Storage -> [Add]
ID: local1
Directory: /local1

 

[m.ardito]

Is this the same principle as when mounting a second Hard disk?

it could be simple like that...

Marco