How to format the external backup HDD's?
You will now reformat them to BTRFS. You can skip this step, if they are already BTRFS formatted!
Warning: this will delete any data on this drive!
- Power on your server by pressing the
power button
(if not already done) - Please don't connect the backup HDDs to your server, yet!
(The already with Veracrypt encrypted and mounted external data SSD/HDD must stay connected; disconnecting and connecting one backup HDD that you want to format is just so that the system is able to understand which drive you want to format.) - Run over CLI:
sudo bash /var/scripts/not-supported.sh
- Choose
BTRFS Format
- Select to
Format a drive
- Press
OK
to start searching for new drives - Now connect one of your backup HDD's to your server (you have 1 minute)
- You should get the message that the drive was found
- Select the drive that you want to format to BTRFS
- Type in the label that this partition shall get. It should be a recognizable label like
Daily Backup
for the daily backup drive andOff-shore Backup
for the off-shore backup drive - Confirm that you are sure to format the drive to BTRFS by selecting
Yes
- Now the drive should be successfully formatted
Now repeat the same procedure for the second backup drive. Start at point 5.
caution
The with Veracrypt encrypted data SSD/HDD must stay connected to the server!
note
If you are done, just choose Exit
to exit this script.