Topic: Daily backup failed

[calisun]

I have setup SME server to do a automatic daily backup to USB drive.
I have a Hitachi external USB drive attached, but I keep getting a email message to admin account  that Daily backup failed

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Error while mounting <//localhost/media/Hitachi>
mount: can't find /media/Hitachi in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: 256

[calisun]

I just realized I posted this in wrong category. It should be in SME 9 not 8

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

moved

[ricks1950]

I don't know all the ins and outs of this, however it has happened on both the sites I look after from time to time.  To troubleshoot, I have tried reconfiguring Workstation backup, and found the system could not find the USB drive.  Most of the time, I fixed the problem by removing and re-inserting the USB drive, and testing by configuring Workstation backup.  If all else fails, reboot (but you should not have to).

[janet]

calisun

Please provide more details about the Hitachi USB drive
ie is it an actual hard disk drive, does it have a seperate power supply, is it a type that goes into power saving mode & shuts down ?
There have been issues reported with waking up attached drives, search bugzilla

To check what drives are attached, & with the Hitachi drive connected, do
fdisk -l
Report back here.