Backup Device path

Stewart85

Hi, can someone explain in a little more detail the Backup Device path?

It says device block storage so I assume that this has to be attached storage on the VPS and not just a folder path /dev/sha1

Darren

lsblk should list your block devices available, e.g.

lsblk

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 49.6M 1 loop /snap/snapd/17883
loop1 7:1 0 63.2M 1 loop /snap/core20/1738
loop2 7:2 0 91.9M 1 loop /snap/lxd/24061
loop5 7:5 0 63.2M 1 loop /snap/core20/1695
loop6 7:6 0 91.8M 1 loop /snap/lxd/23991
sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk /backups
vda 252:0 0 50G 0 disk
├─vda1 252:1 0 49.9G 0 part /
├─vda14 252:14 0 4M 0 part
└─vda15 252:15 0 106M 0 part /boot/efi
vdb 252:16 0 466K 1 disk

This particular server has a separate disk device (/dev/sda1) which Enhance is using for backups, and that's the unformatted path/device I gave to the set up process when adding the backup role. Enhance will format as btrfs automatically so you don't need to do anything with it prior to setting up.

Stewart85

Darren

Ok so I will have to get a better VPS that has 2 drives the one I'm currently using has only one
I will try partitioning the drive to play about with it to see how it works
Thanks

Adrien

Stewart85 Hello Stewart. The way I did it was simply to add block storage to my existing VM. Most of the providers offer this option.
Do not mount. Just enter the path and Enhance does the rest.

Powie

Do I "ever" need an unused block device for the backup role?

Adam

Powie

If you want to install the backup role, you need a block device. This can be a disk, an SSD, a RAID array, an iSCSI volume. It needs to be unmounted and have no data on it that you want to keep since Enhance will format it with btrfs.

We are working on adding support for S3 and S3 compatible services as an alternate backup target.