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===== Alternatively setup a USB drive =====

===== Alternatively setup a USB drive =====

<ol></li><li>log into the 'prodbox'  

<ol></li><li>log into the 'prodbox'  

</li><li>Connect a USB hard disk to the USB Bus. Now you must determine what device the kernel has assigned to the drive. View the /var/log/message and search for ''Initializing USB Mass Storage driver''. A few lines below you'll find the name of the device. In this example it is ''sdc''. Replace ''/dev/sdc'' by ''your device'' in following instructions.

</li><li>Connect a USB hard disk to the USB Bus. Now you must determine what device the kernel has assigned to the drive. View the /var/log/message and search for ''Initializing USB Mass Storage driver''. A few lines below you'll find the name of the device. In this example it is ''sdh''. Replace ''/dev/sdh'' by ''your device'' in following instructions.

</li><li>Use the fdisk program to create a linux partition

</li><li>Use the fdisk program to create a linux partition. '''Verify that this is really the attached USB drive before you continue!'''

  fdisk /dev/sdc

 

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/sdc1''.

  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''.

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

  mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1

  mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdh1

</li><li>Make the mount point

</li><li>Make the mount point

  mkdir -p /mnt/affadevice

  mkdir -p /mnt/affadevice

</li><li>Add the following line to the /etc/fstab

</li><li>Add the following line to the /etc/fstab

  /dev/sdc1 /mnt/affadevice ext3 defaults

  /dev/sdh1 /mnt/affadevice ext3 defaults

</li><li>Mount the drive

</li><li>Mount the drive

  mount /mnt/affadevice

  mount /mnt/affadevice

  df

  df

</li></ol>

</li></ol>

===== Setup Affa =====

===== Setup Affa =====

You want to run backups on 11:30 h, 15:30 h and 19:30 h and you want to keep the last 3 scheduled backups, 7 daily, 5 weekly, 12 monthly and 1 yearly backups.

You want to run backups on 11:30 h, 15:30 h and 19:30 h and you want to keep the last 3 scheduled backups, 7 daily, 5 weekly, 12 monthly and 1 yearly backups.