USB Drives

[ricklach]

I was able to successfully mount a 2 tb usb hard drive and I know it is there because I can see it in the Amahi setup page. The question is how do I create a share on that drive that is called "backup" where I can backup all my computers. Also the drive does not show up within the file system in linux. Been playing with it for a day and am at the total frustration point.

[bigfoot65]

The USB hard drive would need to be mounted on boot. Follow the guidance in the wiki for adding a second hard drive http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA.

That should ensure it is properly mounted and stays that way on boot.

[ricklach]

Thanks, I did that and it is persistent when I boot or re-boot. However, the problem is that I want to create a backup set on that usb drive but I can'r seem to establish the share that points to the drive. I am certain that I am not the first to have this problem. I have added the following line to the fstab file:
/dev/sdb1 var/hda/files/drives ext4 defaults 0 0

I have the suspicion that this is not the correct place to mount the drive to see it as a share.

Rick

[bigfoot65]

That line is not correct. Did you follow the wiki page on adding a second hard drive? That will give you the correct mount info needed for /etc/fstab.

[ricklach]

Thanks, I followed the guide to the "T" and everything is now in order. However, my backups do not work just yet. I get to a point where everything seems to just stop working and the backup then fails. I can see the HDA shares from my Win 7 computer but I cannot see my win 7 shares from the server and get the error Unable to mount location - failed to retrieve share list from server.

Rick

[bigfoot65]

You will not see your Windows 7 shares without mapping them via the Fedora desktop. The only default shares that are seen from the HDA are the ones from itself.

[ricklach]

Thanks again. I solved the problem by fixing the windows firewall on the two computers I could not see. Everything is working as it should now.