#1761 Issue `closed`: USB as OUTPUT and do the BACKUPS to CIFS¶

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rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V):
rear -V
Relax-and-Recover 2.3 / 2017-12-20
OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a):
cat /etc/rear/os.conf
OS_VENDOR=RedHatEnterpriseServer
OS_VERSION=7
rear configuration files (cat /etc/rear/site.conf or cat /etc/rear/local.conf):
OUTPUT=USB
USB_DEVICE=/dev/sdb1
BACKUP=NETFS
#BACKUP_TYPE=incremental
BACKUP_PROG=tar
#FULLBACKUPDAY="Mon"
BACKUP_URL="cifs://ATI-DS/REAR2"
BACKUP_PROG_COMPRESS_OPTIONS="--gzip"
BACKUP_PROG_COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz"
BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( '/tmp/' '/dev/shm/' '/home/rear' )
BACKUP_PROG_ARCHIVE="$( date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M' )-F"
#BACKUP_OPTIONS="auto,noatime,nolock,bg,nfsvers=3,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800"
BACKUP_OPTIONS="cred=/etc/rear/.cifs"
TMPDIR=/home/rear
#USE_STATIC_NETWORKING=yes
USE_DHCLIENT=yes
Are you using legacy BIOS or UEFI boot?
BIOS
Brief description of the issue:
I have servers with a USB attached to all of them fulltime, I want to make the rescue media on the USB and do backups to a NETFS cifs
so when I makrescue it tries to mount the cifs as the output
Work-around, if any:
Dont know

Hi,

Try to add OUTPUT_OPTIONS="rw" to your local.conf
If it does not help, attach relevant log file from rear mkbackup session to this issue.

Be aware, that USB_DEVICE device can't be mounted during rear mkbackup/mkrescue.run time.

V.

That worked, the mkrescue no longer tried to mount the BACKUP_URL cifs

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#1761 Issue closed: USB as OUTPUT and do the BACKUPS to CIFS¶