USB HDD in a cluster

[borpin]

I have 2 old laptops in a PVE cluster (which is brilliant). One of the nodes has a USB drive attached for backup.

In the GUI, I can see the USB attached to the first node, but it also appears on the second node (with a question mark).

I continually get errors in the second node logs

Mar 10 16:39:05 pve2 pvestatd[1126]: unable to activate storage 'usb-sdb1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/media/sdb1'

This is entirely expected but how do I stop the error?

[edit]
Just found where it is managed (in the cluster which isn't obvious) and it is not listed as shared.

[edit2]
So I have just realised that I migrated a container from node 1 to 2 and the backup schedule has the backup of that container pointing to the USB device.

I suspect that is the reason Node 2 is trying to mount it.

 

[Dominic]

Hi,

have you adjusted the "Nodes" option of the PVE storage of your USB drive?
Like here:

 

[borpin]

Hi,

have you adjusted the "Nodes" option of the PVE storage of your USB drive?
Like here:

Hi @Dominic How do I access that Menu item?

 

[Dominic]

Datacenter -> Storage -> Select in the list -> Click edit

 

[borpin]

That could be the issue.

I have used the USB as a directory


Is that not the right way?

 

[Dominic]

It's OK (for special cases), but you won't be able to use it as storage for other nodes.

 

[borpin]

OK, so is the fact the other node looking for it a bug, when a container has been migrated that previously used it for backup?

Would it be worth adding to the Wiki a how to add a USB Drive?

If I was starting from scratch, what is the best way to do it? Does it need Ceph to be installed (I have not found a reason to do so yet).

Thanks for your help.