Add USB Drive to Proxmox, enable backup

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Mount USB drive

• attach USB drive to Server, in my case USB formatted with NTFS
• follow https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/10spjwj/easiest_way_to_mount_usb_drive_proxmox_7/
• before all of that do apt update && apt install ntfs-3g or the drive mounts read-only :-/
• add the following to /etc/fstab: UUID=3498A0FA98A0BBAC /mnt/adata-drive ntfs-3g defaults,rw,noatime,nofail 0 2

Enable Backup

• https://ostechnix.com/backup-proxmox-to-usb-drive/
• you may need to ssh into the server and do service pve-cluster restart && service pvedaemon restart && service pvestatd restart && service pveproxy restart which will restart the server without affecting the VMs
• enable schedule