Hi nostr, i've been pretty busy today, but i made a little time to play with my start9. As a non techy person new to start9, i think the documentation could be a bit better. I was trying to make my first backup, on a hard drive. Followed all the steps in their docs, but my server would not see/find my hard drive when i plugged it in. Had to go on the support page and find out why. Turns out that after formatting the drive, i needed to partition it too. I guess they assume this is common knowledge. Anyway, finally got my backup done and i'm ready to quit for the day. Yall have good evening nostr friends.

Oh, my chile piquin peppers have started putting on lots of peppers, which i enjoyed with lunch today. My favorite peppers of all.

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Congrats for being brave and trying self hosting. Everything new is intimidating, stick with it. Soon you'll be helping others out with their problems.

Congrats on getting set up.

Thanks Annie, still have alot to learn.

You’ll need to format the partition ext4 for it to be recognized by StartOS. Windows and Unix use different file systems and unfortunately Windows doesn’t support formatting drives as ext4 with built-in tools. I believe it only supports NTFS and exFAT.

There are some tools that allow you to do this on Windows. Looks like “MiniTool Partition Wizard” would allow you to do this on windows, but I’ve always formatted Unix drives from Unix systems; so I haven’t tested this software. Another option would be to create a bootable Linux USB, which can be done from Windows, but MiniTool may be easier for non-techie. Maybe someone has a better suggestion, but once you’ve formatted it ext4 it should recognize it just fine.

Congrats on making the move!!