(solved, thanks to satyris) Its regarding backup on creating a backup for ebox

[xavier]

I cant seem to add this line : "/dev/sdb1       /mnt/backup      ext3    noatime        0       1"

it keeps saying permission denied can someone assist please?

[satyris]

Do you have the rights to do this? (root, sudo)

[xavier]

yes i do have the rights. i tried it but it still doesn't work. please assist

[satyris]

What happens, when you just enter it on the command line?

for example:
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup

[xavier]

It says it has already been mounted on /mnt/backup

[satyris]

okay. Check that with:

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mountthere should be an entry like /dev/sdb1 on xxxx

and then go to /mnt/backup

cd /mnt/backup

Are there your files from /dev/sdb1?

Ah, and you can find out your UUID with:

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -al

[xavier]

hey sorry to disturb you. must i put this line :"/dev/sdb1       /mnt/backup      ext3    noatime        0       1" into a file called fstab inside the etc directory?

[satyris]

YES.


Instead of /dev/sdb1 you can use the UUID from /dev/sdb1

[xavier]

THANKS SATY! can you assist me with this link?
http://doc.ebox-platform.com/en/1.2/backup.html

the website says for the local backup configuration i will see 3 parameters. but for my ebox , when i click backup i do not even see these 3 modules . i see something like "method" , "host or destination" etc. can u assist?

[satyris]

Do you really have ebox 1.2?

[xavier]

hey sati. im using version 1.4.6. and when i click backup its totally different from what i see from the website i have given you

[xavier]

hey saty. sorry dor the double post. just ignore the versions i think im ok with it. but by any chance do you know how to make a target directory?

[satyris]

When you use ebox 1.4, you should have the following picture (beside the german language)



By hand you can make a target directory with:

mkdir <dirname>

In my example it is: /home/<space>/ebackups

[xavier]

thanks so much satyris. i really appreciate it for all your time and effort in helping me thanks so much

[satyris]

You are welcome