Objective: Set up home multi-system (Mac, perhaps Win7, and other Ubuntus) backup capability using Seagate Backup Plus 3T drive connected to Ubuntu Studio 14.04. I would like to simplify the drive name and use the preferred (?) UUID/Labels to do so (to preclude changes in /sdx when I add/remove other external drives and reboot).
Approach: rsnapshot and rsync per Jeff Skinner's example.
However, I formatted the drive as exfat (for multi-OS purposes), and sought to use Labels for the drive (calling it "BackupDrive")
Issue: I somehow ended up setting up a mount at sdd1 of /mnt/backupdrive as well as a mount at sdf1 with the label BackupDrive
From mount:
/dev/sdd1 on /mnt/backupdrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/will/BackupDrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
From blkid;
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="BackupDrive" UUID="5053-2D7E" TYPE="exfat"
(there is no /dev/sdd1)
The only thing on the drive are standard Seagate files and some empty directories (e.g., no risk in losing data).
I can ls the files in /mnt/backupdrive and see the above files/directories.
It shows up on Nemo as BackupDrive though with no files or directories.
I have no real information on this backup drive yet
Question: How do I correct this to mount by UUID (or Label), so I can continue working my backup solution?
Once fixed, for rebooting purposes should I use;
sudo rm /etc/fstab.pre-uuid
sudo /var/lib/dpkg/info/volumeid.postinst configure
UPDATE: @Xen2050 - fstab has the following;
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--studio--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#" /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=5cade5c2-bd38-4d2b-aecb-b703ac671bc3 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--studio--vg-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
The UUID for the BackupDrive in blkid and gparted is 5053-2D7E
The UUID 5cade5c2-bd38-4d2b-aecb-b703ac671bc3 is associated with the sda1 boot partition
UPDATE 2: Followed the suggestion of @xen2050 and added the following to fstab;
UUID="5053-2D7E" /media/will/BackupDrive fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
Rebooted, and it complained that there was a mount issue. I skipped the manual configuration during boot.
Here's what mount showed;
/dev/sdc1 on /media/will/BackupDrive1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
blkid showed;
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="BackupDrive" UUID="5053-2D7E" TYPE="exfat"
No existing files were shown in Nemo, though I copied a backup of the previous contents, and the drive shows them as resident there now. I don't understand why there is a BackupDrive1 showing up under mount
Will this work or am I still not out of the woods?
I think your directions (pasted from the Ubuntu uuid page) are outdated:
If you are using Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake LTS, you can use these commands to "upgrade" to UUIDs. All other supported versions of Ubuntu automatically use UUIDs, so this is not necessary.
What's your /etc/fstab look like now? You can probably just change the "/dev/sd.." names to "UUID=..." in there and that's about it, like in the fstab help page. I think mount always reports what /dev device is mounted...
... saw updated fstab. I'm not too familiar with the "fuseblk" type, I've seen it before used with encryption but not in mount's output... but if it works that's good enough. The one says it's type "exfat" so maybe replacing fuseblk with exfat would work, or even auto...
So now the drive(s) get mounted with:
/dev/sdd1 on /mnt/backupdrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/will/BackupDrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
So I think putting these into fstab should work for the sdf one:
UUID="5053-2D7E" /media/will/BackupDrive fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
Not sure about the sdd1 one, if blkid didn't see it...? Tried sudo blkid? Or there's only the one drive isn't there? Unplugging it could give it a different sdx "name"... so maybe that's what happened there to get the 2 different entries?
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