Systemback

ext4 WD My Book drive not detected

Asked by rwong

Hi,

After much searching and searching through the threads, I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light where I have gone wrong (or direct me to a link that can solve it - thanks): my problem is that my systemback isn't detecting the usb drive under Write Directory (it doesn't show up at all).

What I've tried so far:
I've formatted my 4TB WD My Book drive (using GPart) to ext4 and have set all rw permissions to username:username and root:root (via chown) as well as tried automounting and manual mounting too - no success.
The drive itself I am able to access with read+write but I'm completely stumped as to why its not showing up on systemback.

Thank you in advance to anyone!

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Systemback Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
Kendek
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Kendek (nemh) said : 		#1

First, what is this "Write Directory"?
If you want to change the Storage directory (for restore points) or the Working directory (for Live systems), just mount the ext4 partition and select the mount point (or a subdirectory) in the Systemback. In default, when you clicking the partition in the Nautilus (file manager), the filesystem will mounted under /media/<username>/UUID (or label if you set). Check this screenshot:
http://logout.hu/dl/upc/2016-04/180556_sb.png

Revision history for this message
rwong (rwong1231) said : 		#2

Hi Kendek,

Sorry, I meant Write target: meaning that my drive doesn't show up in the write target box. However, I am able to "Create new" live image and store it in the drive. In other words, I am able to navigate to my drive via the "Working directory" selection and to create and store a live image there. However, the drive doesn't show up in the "Write target" area.

But I think this is good enough since (to my understanding) I can still recover my system using the 'systemback_live_2016-XX-XX' image itself. Is this correct?

Thank you again.

Revision history for this message
Best Kendek (nemh) said : 		#3

Not all SATA to USB adapter are detected as USB drive (like pendrives).
The "Write to target" destroyes all data in the target device, I think your 4 TiB HDD would be unnecessarily large capacity.
If you want to create a Live device, use a smaller (4 GiB+) pendrive or memory card. If you want to create restore points on a separated disk, use your My Book drive. Just create a partition with a Linux filesystem and set it in the Systemback. If your system is failed, the restore points are usable to recovery.
The .sblive images are not usable alone. Must be written to a bootable device.

Revision history for this message
rwong (rwong1231) said : 		#4

Sounds good...this answered my problem and questions! Thank you!

Revision history for this message
rwong (rwong1231) said : 		#5

Thanks Kendek, that solved my question.