Vembu BDR suite is a Backup and Disaster Recovery solution which is an amalgamation of Vembu VMBackup, Vembu Image Backup, Vembu Network Backup and Vembu OnlineBackup. The Vembu VMBackup, Vembu Network Backup, Vembu Image Backup are all client agents that have the backup type which is both image based and application/file level backup to the centralised backup server called Vembu BDR Backup Server.

If the Vembu BDR Backup Server installed in Linux machine and once the Vembu BDR backup storage is filled with its allocated space, add another HDD for the virtual machine in which Vembu BDR running and follow the below steps to use the added drive as backup storage. In the below process we will change the drive into XFS file system.

Steps to Partition & Mount the Added HDD:

Note: The below Commands should be entered in Terminal with root privileges. Change the “sdb” & “sdb1” respective to your drive environment.

1. apt-get install xfsprogs

(Need to install xfsprogs to make the drive as XFS file system).

2. fdisk /dev/sdb

(Partition the drive)

Once the above command entered, it will lead to partition process. During partition process enter the commands that are in the double quotes in the below steps.

1. Command as “n” to create a new partition.
2. Command as “p” to select the partition type.
3. Command as “1” to make the whole drive into 1 partition. You can change the number, if you want to make more number of partitions.
4. “Press Enter” for the starting sector of partition.
5. “Press Enter” for the Ending sector of the partition.
6. Command as “w” to create the partition table.
3. mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1

(Format the drive with xfs file system)

4. mkdir /mnt/VembuStorageDrive

(Create a folder VembuStorageDrive at the specified location to make the mount point)

5. mount -t xfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/VembuStorageDrive

(Mount the Drive into the folder created)

6. df -h

(Make sure whether the drive mounted successfully. The newly mounted volume will be at the bottom of list)

7. echo ‘/dev/sdb1 /mnt/VembuStorageDrive xfs defaults 0 0’ >> /etc/fstab

(This will add the mounted drive into fstab, so that it will be mounted whenever the system rebooted)

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Sivasankar P

I have been with Vembu Technologies for the past two years as a Quality Assurance Engineer. I'm an inquisitive person with keen interest in exploring and learning new things.