Mounting a USB drive for backup using fstab

[donsev]

Hello,

I'm trying to mount an external USB drive to do a (local) backup of my server. I'm trying to use /etc/fstab to mount it, since I can't find the option in the GUI, but get an error: "fstab: /etc/fstab:8: Inappropriate file type or format". My fstab file:

Code:

freenas-boot/grub  /boot/grub  zfs  rw,noatime  1  0
fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw  0 0
/dev/ada3p1.eli none  swap  sw  0  $
/dev/ada0p1.eli none  swap  sw  0  $
/dev/da0p1.eli  none  swap  sw  0  $
/dev/ada2p1.eli none  swap  sw  0  $
/dev/ada4p1.eli none  swap  sw  0  $
/dev/da1s1 /mnt/ZFS/Shared/Test cifs

If this is not possible, is there anyway to get a VM (ubuntu) to recognize a plugged in USB? I did try other methods of backing up, mainly using my raspberry pi to backup over the network, but it would be great (not to mention faster) if I could backup directly.

 

[Arwen]

I don't think you want to use "cifs". That is a network file system used primarily by Microsoft Windows.

Guessing you want FAT or VFAT. I don't know the FreeBSD naming convention. Further, you MUST have all 6 fields for an entry. And last, I think FreeNAS will forget those changes on reboot.

In general, you perform the action from the command line first to get the syntax. And if warranted, add it to /etc/fstab after.

 

[Thomas102]

Hi,
cifs is for mounting windows smb shares.
Most propable is your usb drive formatted under ntfs, you should look for that on google

 

[donsev]

Thanks guys!

So I googled a bit following ya'lls directions and ended up with the following steps.

1. Code:

   kldload fuse.ko

2. Code:

   mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt/ZFS/Shared/Test

Code 2 alone will result in error: fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory
You can check the USB drive's name (da1) under Storage -> V

In this example my external drive (da1) will be mounted under the folder Test. Worked great, read and write permissions both enabled by default. Since this is just a temporary mount I didn't bother adding it to fstab. Not sure how fast it transfers files though, is there a way to check if I'm just cp /directory /mnt/ZFS/Shared/Test certain shares?

 

[Thomas102]

You can use pv
https://askubuntu.com/questions/17275/progress-and-speed-with-cp