Hi,
I have seen a couple of threads here about Amanda and mounting a NAS but since I am totally new with openHABian, Amanda, even Linux I can’t figure it out. Could somebody guide me through the steps of actually creating that local folder, then mounting the NAS (I already created a folder with username/password + r/w) and then how to actually install and setup from the openHABian Configuration Tool? I have a software/technology background but new to Linux, openHABian. I’m just concerned that the SD card of my Raspberry Pi might go corrupt and don’t want to lose all the work I’ve been putting into setting up my smarthome hub.
How is your NAS sharing out the file share? CIFS or NFS?
Once you know take the following steps:
Create a folder where you will mount the file system to. Sounds like you’ve done this.
Search Google for “fstab CIFS tutorial” or “fstab NFS tutorial”
Edit /etc/fstab as indicated in the tutorial you find.
Run sudo mount /folder/created/above using the path to the folder created in step 1. Double check you can read and write to this folder and the file promising make sense.
When going through the questions in openHABian to set up Amanda, choose the folder created in step 1 as the destination.
It doesn’t matter where. I usually use /mnt but /media is probably not appropriate. From a technical perspective you can put it anywhere. It doesn’t matter.
The answer is in step 2 where you search for tutorials to tell you how to set it up for the file system you are sharing it as (NFS or CIFS).
And use NFS only. Don’t mess with CIFS for this purpose or you’ll likely run into trouble, see the Amanda Readme. And since you have apparently missed that this was mentioned therein, better read all of it one more time.
