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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 8.x => Topic started by: gbentley on June 05, 2012, 10:25:29 AM

Title: Change workstation backup destination label
Post by: gbentley on June 05, 2012, 10:25:29 AM

Hi all,

I notice that on the workstation backup panel, choosing cifs or ntfs I can choose the destination folder for the backup eg [media/extusb] yet for a local usb disc there is a drop dopwn menu that I cannot change?

When I first looked it said 'extusb' now it says 'nolabel' and the backup failed with

Error while mounting /dev/sdc1 /media/nolabel :
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

In my fstab I have ;

/dev/sdc1 /media/extusb ext3 defaults 0 0

How do I specify or change the pulldown???

OR should I just change fstab [as long as it doesnt change again?]

Title: Re: Change workstation backup destination label
Post by: gbentley on June 06, 2012, 08:30:12 AM

I changed the mount point in fstab to 'nolabel' however this morning I got an email report ;

Cron <root@candle3> /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk
Error while mounting /dev/sdc1 /media/nolabel :
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: 7424

Logging in with ssh I notice that ;

[root@server ~]# mount /media/nolabel
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

[root@server ~]# mount /media/nolabel
[root@server ~]# ls /media/nolabel
[root@server ~]# touch /media/nolabel/test
[root@server ~]# ls /media/nolabel
test
[root@server ~]#

Suspect the disc is going to sleep of some such - its an RDX cartridge / drive. I dont think this is a bug in SME just a hardware feature? Any suggestions?

Thanks!