Hello, I finally got everything working correct on my server, so now I would like to begin performing backups regularly. I purchased a 160GB USB HDD for this purpose, but I'm having troubles getting it configured properly. There are a lot of great tips here for actually doing the backups, but I can't seem to find anything to help me get the hardware set up! I would prefer to just leave the drive powered on all of the time so that it mounts on boot-up, but I'm having a few problems making this work. Can anyone assist? Also, my system is able to see the drive if I power it up after I boot....but only after I receive a pop-up message asking if I want to mount the USB drive. I would prefer that it mount automatically when I power it up, and then have an icon appear on my desktop to let me know that it is available. How can I do this? Note: I am using SUSE 9.3 Thanks in advance! JustJim
The key is to put an appropriate entry into /etc/fstab. Have a look here: http://ldots.org/prodrive/ http://docs.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/1619248&tid=31&tid=7&tid=14 http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11637.html http://forum.cyberciti.biz/viewtopic.php?t=486
How does this work on Debian sqeeuze and/or wheezy ? Or is it possible to automount it without extra tools? Some of the links are broken.
