"No usb disk found" - why not?

[Fuddyduddy]

Hello

It's been a long time since I last posted, and I'm sorry to say that my skills (meagre to begin-with) in using the estimable fsvw firmware have if anything declined even further in the meantime :(

I thought that since I've become so rusty the best thing to do would be to start all over again from the beginning, starting with (re-)setting-up the backups of two of my fsvw file-shares I previously had.

Whereupon I fell at the first hurdle. I've had a WD Elements usb drive plugged-into the front port of my NS2 for quite a while. I've backed-up files to it in the past. The LED on the drive is glowing normally and the drive shows-up in <Attached Devices : USB-devices >. But in <File Share : Backup tab> the words "No usb disk found" appear above the box for entering destination folder(s).

How can this be?

[Jocko]

Hi Fuddyduddy,

can you post the output of

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mount

(of course with your usb drive plugged)

and this one

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cat /etc/patch_log

[Fuddyduddy]

Hi Jocko

Prompt as always!

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login as: root
root@192.168.11.5's password:
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
/dev/sda5 on /rw_fs type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /rw_fs/tmp/usr/var type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=5000k)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /rw_fs/tmp/mnt/NAS_backup_1 type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb1 on /share/1000/NAS_backup_1 type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda8 on /share/1000 type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/loop0 on /share/1000/disk-images/image-1 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=850,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/root on /lacie-boot type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered)
root@fvdwsl-base:/ #


That's the first one.

But I'm having no success with the second. First I tried your command-line when in / No dice.

Then I cd'd to /etc and tried again. No dice.

What ought I to be doing that I'm not?

[Jocko]

Hi Fuddyduddy,

But I'm having no success with the second.

This means you did not have install the patches for version 16.1 (some ones provide fixes on USB feature)

So first thing to do is to install them.

However, your USB drive is detected and mounted

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/dev/sdb1 on /rw_fs/tmp/mnt/NAS_backup_1 type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb1 on /share/1000/NAS_backup_1 type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)

So even if you have the warning "No usb disk found", your drive is available on the share "NAS_backup_1"

[Fuddyduddy]

@Jocko

Up-loaded these patches:- remoteshr; autowakeup; USB-fix; warning-iesupport.

Here's the second batch of code you asked for

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login as: root
root@192.168.11.5's password:
root@fvdwsl-base:/ # cat /etc/patch_log
[2017-03-18 19:03:59]   unzip|unzip     fvdw-sl 16.1    nwsp2   /fvdw-sl-16.1-afpfix-remoteshr-11oct15.zip(fvdw-sl-16.1-afpfix-remoteshr-11oct15.tar)   OK
[2017-03-18 19:04:30]   unzip|unzip     fvdw-sl 16.1    nwsp2   /fvdw-sl-16.1-fix-autowakeup-03oct15.zip(fvdw-sl-16.1-fix-autowakeup-03oct15.tar)       OK
[2017-03-18 19:04:44]   unzip|unzip     fvdw-sl 16.1    nwsp2   /fvdw-sl-16.1-USB-fix-17feb16.zip(fvdw-sl-16.1-USB-fix-17feb16.tar)     OK
[2017-03-18 19:07:26]   unzip|unzip     fvdw-sl 16.1    nwsp2   /fvdw-sl-16.1-warning-iesupport-03dec15.zip(fvdw-sl-16.1-warning-iesupport-03dec15.tar) OK
root@fvdwsl-base:/ #


USB external drive is now detected in <File Share - Backup>.

I've now set up and scheduled in Cron two backups (to be exact, have reactivated one of the ones I previously had and have set up a second, new, one from scratch).

One thing (actually a lot more than one, but never mind) which continues to fox me is how I examine the contents of the backup folders residing on the usb external drive. Having SSL'd into fvdwsl-base, I drill-down into /share/1000/NAS_backup_1; there I see the two directories (Back-up My_Movies and Back-up Recorded_TV) listed, but if I try to CD to either of them I just get the message "can't CD to Back-up".

Why can't I?

[Jocko]

hi Fuddyduddy,

You have a space char in your folder name so you need to quote them in your command

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cd '/share/1000/Back-up My_Movies'

[Fuddyduddy]

Hi Jocko

Thanks for your help. Couldn't do without it :hail

[Fuddyduddy]

....and (as a PS)

Installing those patches has incidentally provided the answer to the question posed above about getting access to the backup folders residing on the external usb drive.

They're now accessible, not only via the Telnet server but also directly within Windows Explorer itself, over the network.