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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!

  1. Power on your server by pressing the power button (if not already done)
  2. 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.)
  3. Run over CLI:
    sudo bash /var/scripts/not-supported.sh
  4. Choose BTRFS Format
  5. Select to Format a drive
  6. Press OK to start searching for new drives
  7. Now connect one of your backup HDD's to your server (you have 1 minute)
  8. You should get the message that the drive was found
  9. Select the drive that you want to format to BTRFS
  10. Type in the label that this partition shall get. It should be a recognizable label like Daily Backup for the daily backup drive and Off-shore Backup for the off-shore backup drive
  11. Confirm that you are sure to format the drive to BTRFS by selecting Yes
  12. 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.