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Hi. I switched from a few SBCs to a proxmox-server and i really enjoy it. Now - after playing a little bit around - i plugged an external 8tb-hdd on my server mainly for backups. I followed this tutorial: https://ostechnix.com/add-external-usb-storage-to-proxmox/
Next step is to use urbackup. I created a folder /urbackup on the 8tb-hdd and now i would like to assign this folder to the urbackup-docker but i do not understand how to do this.
What “content” do i have to choose for this case and how can i assign the folder to the docker?
Important EDIT: I forgot to mention that i do not use a VM but LXC!
SOLUTION in this case is pretty simple: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container#_bind_mount_points
For example, to make the directory /mnt/bindmounts/shared accessible in the container with ID 100 under the path /shared, add a configuration line such as:
mp0: /mnt/bindmounts/shared,mp=/shared
into /etc/pve/lxc/100.conf.
Or alternatively use the pct tool:
pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/bindmounts/shared,mp=/shared
to achieve the same result.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Is this urbackup-docker in a VM or an LXC? If the latter, you don’t need to add it in storage at all; you can bind mount the folder and use it directly. Here’s some info on that. If it’s in a VM and you want to use the directory directly (as in not just make a disk image inside the directory to pass as a block device) you’ll have to do some file sharing to the VM.