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VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot

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VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store.

I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2.

This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication stores after the reboot manually. It was not something critical, but just little annoying.  That's why I was quite happy to find this VMware KB which solves exactly this trouble.

You have to go and add a line to the /etc/fstab file after logging via SSH into your VDR appliance. The steps you'll have to take are:

  1. Open an SSH session to the VDR appliance.
  2. Open the /etc/fstab file using a text editor.
  3. Add this line at the end of the file:/dev/sdX /SCSI-0:1 ext3 defaults 0 0where
  4. /dev/sdX is the device name
    /SCSI-0:1 is the mount point
    ext3 is the file system type
    defaults is the mount option
    0 is the dump option
    0 is the file system check option
  5. Run these commands to unmount and remount the volume:unmount /SCSI-0:1
    mount /SCSI-0:1

Source: VMware KB 1029746

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