Backup on secondary disk

[gerori]

Hello,

I installed FreedomBox on a LENOVO ThinkCenter M710q:

• 4x Intel Core i3-7100T CPU @ 3.40GHz
• 8GB DDR4 2400 MHz RAM
• M2 NVMe KINGSTON SNV3S 500G (system)
• Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD (data)
• Debian 13 Trixi FreedomBox
  Freedombox: Status
  You are using Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) and FreedomBox version 26.2.
  Your FreedomBox is up to date.

Everything is working very well.
First, I installed Nextcloud to synchronize calendars and directories for the family.

I wanted to make backups on the Samsung SSD, but I can’t select it. However, it is properly mounted on /mnt/FB-data. The only options available are on the system disk:
boot, tmp, home, vlog, srv, /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, or /var/lib/containers/storage/xxx
I haven’t figured out how to do it…

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[Peterc]

Hello @gerori and welcome !!

When I installed Debian Trixie on my ThinkCentre M715q. I formatted the M2 NVMe drive for: btrfs. Freedombox needs btrfs for snapshots software can be used. I installed Freedombox by using the “Blend” option of the Debian installer. The “blend” option is available where you pick your desktop, Gnome,Kde,…

The SSD drive I formatted as ext4 and give the SSD drive a mount point of /mnt/storage and give it a Label name of “Storeage”. This is done with the Debian installer.

Screenshot from: System > Backups

To setup the backup location: System > Backups

Picked the “+Add Backup Location” option:

Create backup repository:

In the “Select Disk or Partition” section. The SSD drive Label name “Storage” can be picked. Then set “Encryption” to None. Then “Create Repository”. Which will create a directory called FreedomBoxBackups on the SSD drive.

Screenshot:

Click the “scheduled” button for “/mnt/storeage/FreedomBoxBackups” and then check the tick box: “Schedule Backups”. Then “Submit”.

Screenshot:

I hope the above as helped: regards: peter

[gerori]

Thank you for this detailed description; by following it, I was able to make a backup on the /mnt/FB-data disk.
Then I scheduled the backups!

Before, I had tried selecting “create a backup location,” but I couldn’t find my /mnt/FB-data disk.

Following your method is easier and it works!
Thank you very much.
Best regards, Gérard.