I saw the note that using an external hard-drive isn’t supported
IMPORTANT Little Backup Box is designed to work with USB sticks as backup media. Theoretically, it’s possible to make Little Backup Box work with an external hard disk, but this setup is not officially supported.
I’m curious what it’d take to get this to work? And I’m wondering if what I’m seeing is related to not being officially supported.
I have an external hard drive and a SD memory card plugged into a powered USB hub, that’s then connected to a RPI 3B. Basically LBB will mount whatever device is listed under STORAGE_DEV, whether that’s the SD card or the HD, however it’ll refuse to mount CARD_DEV.
CONFIG:
STORAGE_DEV="sde1" # Name of the storage device
STORAGE_MOUNT_POINT="/media/storage" # Mount point of the storage device
CARD_DEV="sdb1" # Name of the storage card
CARD_MOUNT_POINT="/media/card" # Mount point of the storage card
SHUTD="5" # Minutes to wait before shutdown due to inactivity
SYNCTHING=false # Set to true to enable Syncthing
BAK_DIR="/home/pi/BACKUP" # Home directory path
DISP=false # Enable OLED display
Sys Info:
Devices
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 29.7G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 29.7G 0 part
sde 8:64 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sde1 8:65 0 1.8T 0 part /media/storage
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.8G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 41.8M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 29.8G 0 part /
Disk space
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 32G 3.3G 27G 11% /
devtmpfs 481M 0 481M 0% /dev
tmpfs 486M 234k 486M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 486M 13M 473M 3% /run
tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 486M 0 486M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 44M 24M 20M 55% /boot
/dev/sde1 2.0T 20G 2.0T 1% /media/storage
tmpfs 98M 0 98M 0% /run/user/999
If I reverse this by setting the SD card, sdb1, to STORAGE_DEV and the HD, sde1, under CARD_DEV, LBB will mount the SD card in /media/storage and ignore the HD.
So is this the reason for the IMPORTANT note about not supporting hard drive storage? Something else?
Thanks for your thoughts!
Best,
Josh