How to mount a disk on Proxmox



1- USING SSH (putty):

find out if the disk is connected:

#lsblk

here our disk was sdb

with one partition sdb1 was ntfs formatted

format the disk ext4 filesystem and label it with bkphd

#mkfs.ext4 -L bkphd /dev/sdb1

mount the drive:

mkdir -p /mnt/bkphdd

nano /etc/fstab

add the following line:

LABEL=bkphd /mnt/bkphdd ext4 defaults 0 2

ctrl+o then enter then ctrl+x

mount -a

then we create a folder for backup inside the new mounted hd

mkdir -p /mnt/bkphdd/backup/

2- USING GUI:

Datacenter-> Storage-> Add -> Directory

set the following:

ID: bkphd

Directory: /mnt/bkphdd/backup/

Content: VZDump backup file

Nodes: select node

enabled: checked

shared: checked

max backups: 2

After that we can schedule backups from datacenter-> backups.

Done!

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