Topic: Backup using Tandberg RDX drive

[nadia678]

I have a question regarding how to use the Tandberg RDX drive to do DAR backups. I Know that SME sees the drive as a internal SATA drive. I have formatted the drive and mounted it, but I don’t know how to configure DAR to use a internal drive.
I did the following to mount the drive. but now I’m stuck…
fdisk -l | more
fdisk /dev/sdb
n (to add a new partition)
p (to make a primary partion)
1 (that's the number one, the number you want to assign to the partition)
w (write and exit)
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/drx1
nano /etc/fstab
add the line “/dev/sdb1 /mnt/drx1 ext3 usrquota,grpquota 1 2”
Hit <ctrl-x> to exit the editor, y and enter to save
mount -a
df –T

[nadia678]

Basically I need to know how do i do DAR backup to a local SATA drive on the same SME box

[janet]

nadia678

You do not say which backup method you are using or want to use.

The DAR2 contrib will backup to a mounted SATA drive. Install that and try.


I'm not sure if the default Backup or Restore panel ie e-smith backup with DAR, supports backing up to a mounted drive. The Backup to workstation option, provides options which will obviously backup to a workstation share or a USB drive.
If you specify a mount point in fstab for a SATA drive, and then use that as the backup drive location when setting up the workstation backup, then it should also backup to the mounted SATA drive.