Topic: error mounting USB disks when running backup

[ber]

Hi All, been scratching my head and going round and round in circles- need another look at this can someone revisit my work and see where I've gone wrong.

My SME 7.5.1 is backed up on a 80GB USB external device- backup files are appx 16GB.
The system was running fine, then I had a problem with the previous backup disk so I replaced it and now cant get the backups running due to the mounting problem.
Server runs two 80GB disks in RAID 1- all current updates are installed.
I run the backups through the browser and configure the available disks for backup from there.
The new disks that have been added do show up as i beleive they are correct configured.

I also have a USB disk contrib on the server that monitors the USB disks and enables manual mounting etc..all these run as expected.

Ive gone through the how to many times with different disks and still keep getting the same problem-
Backup started at Fri Aug 26 11:32:04 2011 Backup of mysql databases has been done Mounting backup shared directory localhost/media/80GB
 
*** No backup allowed or error during backup *** Error while mounting /media/80GB
 :
mount: can't find /media/80GB
 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

As mentioned Ive tried different disks and keep getting the same problem- ive done some indepth look at editing fstab and still cant resolve it.

I feel the problem is related somehow to the configuration of my fstab- just cant pinpoint the problem.

The USB backup disk I have is a 80GB ATA disk.(sdd with sdd1 partition) here is my fstab file.

#------------------------------------------------------------
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/main/root          /                       ext3    usrquota,grpquota      $
/dev/md1                /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/main/swap          swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdd1               /media/80GB             ext3    defaults     0 0
                               [ Read 22 lines ]

The disk mounts ok when I run the mount command.

here the list of disks fdisk command.

[root@server ~]# fdisk -l | more
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2              14        9729    78043770   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104384+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2              13        9729    78043807   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/md2: 79.9 GB, 79916695552 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19510912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/dm-0: 78.0 GB, 78014054400 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19046400 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/dm-1: 1879 MB, 1879048192 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 458752 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/sdd: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1        9729    78148161   83  Linux
[root@server ~]#


Thanks you.

[mmccarn]

What is the output of

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mount
What is the file system on the new backup drive (fat32, ntfs, ext3)?

[Curly]

It's a bug, http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6512. I ran into this also.

[ber]

Hi Curly I'm still new to the bug system and am unclear how to establish whether the bug is fixed or in progress and what the update is regarding the "fix" for that particular "bug". Can you enlighten anymore regarding that particular bug where the solution is for the problem. Thanks

[Curly]

I'm not so sure either, but the status of the bug is "verified fixed". I only know it doesn't work for me.

To still make a backup I just added an entry to /etc/fstab, and removed it afterwards. But, be sure to make a backup of that file because that's an essential file.

[johnp]

From doing a quick read of that bug, it appears to me that it applies to doing a backup using certain browsers causes the value to be appended with a CL/LF(^M). It also appears that this has been fixed and verified.

The update could be installed using

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yum update --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing  e-smith-backup
I could be mistaken, but updating this shouldn't create any problem even if this isn't your issue.