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garyd9
Sep 04, 2014Virtuoso
"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
garyd9
Sep 07, 2014Virtuoso
Interesting. Could you do me a favor? Stick the USB drive into the front (or one of the back.. doesn't matter) ports, wait until it's mounted, and run dmesg from ssh. Please let me know which port you plugged into (front, back top, or back bottom) and the lines from dmesg near the bottom that look similar to:
mdgm wrote: Backups to USB do work.
I don't have a Pro BE to test on. I assume we haven't mapped the USB ports for legacy devices for backup jobs.
usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
scsi10 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
That _should_ tell me what the port number is for the device. If I'm lucky, it'll be 3-1, 3-3 or 3-4 (depending on which connector you use.) Using that, I'm hoping to figure out a way to edit /etc/frontview/backup_jobs.conf to get the backups working on this ProBE...
Thanks
Gary
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