With StartOS at present, you get one "data" drive. You can flash StartOS to the internal drive, then use an external drive for service data, or you can use the same (internal or external) drive for both StartOS and service data. This choice is made during initial setup and cannot be changed afterward. The feature for progressively adding additional data drives is coming in a later release.
This. My nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll laptop doesn’t recognize my new external SSD for some reason. 😔
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Are we talking about the same thing? I’m talking about the backup to physical drive feature.
https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/user-manual/backups/backup-create#physical-drive
No, we are not talking about the same thing. I see now, you're saying you got an external drive for the purpose of creating a backup, but StartOS can't see it. Almost certainly a formatting issue. You could probably format it ext4 and that would help. Also possible StartOS v0.3.6 (currently in testing) will recognize it because it as-is is based on a newer Linux kernel.
Hmm, it is formatted to EXT4. Maybe it’s formatted incorrectly somehow. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Fixed it. I accidentally formatted the wrong partition. Followed this video:
Can the data drive be a mirror with 2 physical discs in software or would it need to be a hardware mirror that looked like a single disc to the OS?
Must look like a single drive to the OS. Future versions will allow for multiple drives in software, including mirroring as a failsafe measure.