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fdisk /dev/sdh
fdisk /dev/sdh
You'll most likely find an existing vfat dos partition, which you have to delete first. In the following we assume, that you have created a single partition ''/dev/sdh1''.
You'll most likely find an existing vfat dos partition, which you have to delete first. In the following we assume, that you have created a single partition ''/dev/sdh1''.
* now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem, if prodbox has ntfs utils installed the usb can also be formatted ntfs, see [[USBDisks|USBDisks#NTFS]]
* now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdh1
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdh1
* make the mount point
* make the mount point
* crosscheck your work using the df command
* crosscheck your work using the df command
df
df
===== Setup Affa =====
===== Setup Affa =====
The mount point will be automatically created, if it does not exist. <br>
The mount point will be automatically created, if it does not exist. <br>
To access the archive directory, you need to mount it manually.
To access the archive directory, you need to mount it manually.
== ==== Copying a AFFA USB hard drive archive to a new disk ==== ==
Affa uses copious amounts of hard links to compress and preserve disk space for its backups. If you are in the situation where you want to copy such a disk archive to a new (bigger) disk, you need to ensure that the hard links are copied correctly or the destination copy may became significantly bigger than the total of the source archive.
One way to copy across file systems (i.e. two different USB disks) and preserve the hard links is as follows:
* mount both USB drives but with different mount points. e.g. /media/backup1 & /media/backup2 and then:
mkdir /media/backup2/archive
cd /media/backup1/archive
tar cpf - . | ( cd /media/backup2/archive && tar xpf - )
where '''archive''' is the name of the AFFA job you want to move to the other disk.
=== Restore ===
=== Restore ===
