Hi
I was recently having issues with backup to workstation over a LAN:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,51664.0.html I am running SME server 8.1.
In the previous post it was suggested by Janet that I should copy everything to a locally mounted USB drive which I have now done (it took nearly three days but that is another issue).
I wish to restore that data and having followed the relevant instructions in
http://wiki.contribs.org/USBDisks and
http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk#Partitioning_the_disk I now have a 3TB hard drive which is mountable to my server and I can see all the .dar backup files correctly.
I noted that at the bottom of the USB Disks 'How To' there was the statement:-
Note: When configuring a USB drive to be used by the built in Workstation Backup To USB you must ensure that the drive is not mounted automatically. When configuring the Workstation Backup, it will look for unmounted removable drives and allow you to select what you want. If the drive is already mounted when you configure it then you will get an error saying "No Removable disk available".I therefore carefully unmounted the drive before attempting to configure the backup/restore from 'Local Removable Disc' as set up in the workstation backup options (same parameters as the original backup apart from destination).
I have labelled the drive 'usbBackup' but the option to choose the backup share says 'nolabel' and I am unable to persuade it otherwise.
Whether it is relevant I don't know but I have not edited fstab because of the note about not mounting the device automatically.
Here are the first few lines from issuing dumpe2fs which I believe confirm the label on the disk:-
[root@server /]# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1
dumpe2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem volume name: usbBackup
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 49e2ac7d-8120-4934-b95d-5acf6b3bf63f
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Obviously I have missed something or made an error but I am unable to work out what, if anyone would be kind enough to help I will be most grateful. Thank you.