Topic: Adding extfernal USB disk- simlink to i-bay problems.

[ber]

Hi I'm trying to get some documentation of setting up a USB disk and sharing that so that's is available through windows.
I setup a USB simlink to an i-bay using the following contrib for the purpose of an external backup of our accounting software. If hardware fails i can remove the USB drive and restore the accounting program on a windows workstation.

http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk

Ive setup the external USB pendrive and "simlinked" it to and i-bay. Problem is that it doesnt write to the USB??, Ive removed the USB and plugged into a windows machine- no backup files. The windows format is vfat- so it should be ok. The files seemed to be written to the i-bay but not to the USB drive- gone through the instructions over and over again.

I would like to share the USB drive over a samba network and map drives to it for the accounts software. Accounting software is run on windows machines but the data file is kept on our SME server.
Thanks Regards John
I hope Ive made things clear. Thanks for any input.

[versa]

I would be careful with usb pendrives for critical data
I have seen too many of them fail.
You would be better / safer creating an accounts ibay and using something like affa fo have a seperate backup for this ibay to your pendrive.

Here is details on usb disks
http://wiki.contribs.org/USBDisks

There is also a contrib to handle usb disks mentioned at thebottom of the above page.
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35466.0

This contrib is in the contribs repo at this stage so the following will install it

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yum install --enablerepo=smecontribs smeserver-usbdisksmanager