Hi:

Did my backup go to nowhere?

I built a NAS with OpenMediaVault. Things were going well and I decided to make a backup. The system drive has two partitions, and there are a pair of drives as a raid mirror (three drives total). On the system drive one partition is where OMV runs and the other partition I thought I sent a backup image using fsarchiver by sending the file to /mnt/backup with the command:

fsarchiver savefs /mnt/backup/alpha.fsa /dev/sdb1

When I went to make the second backup I could not find the first.

alpha.fsa didn't get stored on the partition and the next time I used a similar command but preceded it with:

mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
then
fsarchiver savefs /mnt/backup/bravo.fsa /dev/sdb1

bravo.fsa appears on the partition named backup

Thanks for any replies,
scott

You need to mount a device before you can read/write to its file system.
So the second attempt was correct.

It's strongly recommended that you unmount the device (umount command) when you have finished with it.
This will ensure that all writes are flushed to the device.

You can automate this by listing devices in /etc/fstab - there are tutorials on this.

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That appears to be a correct command, the first version you've used. I've not used fsarchiver, however have you looked at their Quick Start Guide?

It might be helpful to cite the version of fsarchiver you are using. Check the ownership of the mounted file system, and determine whether or not you need to use sudo to be able to successfully complete the archive action.

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Thank you JeremyBoden & rtmistler. I'll remember to UMOUNT too. I'm still surprised the fsarchiver did not provide an error writing to a device that was not mounted.