Record to USB drive?

[urukhai]

Ts 251+ is my model...

I just did it today.
The beauty of Linux is that everything is a file in the file system. My USB HDD was connected as "/share/external/DEV3304_1". What I did in SSH was:
1) Format the external USB HDD in format Ext4 via Web GUI
2) mkdir /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/ext_drive
3) mkdir /share/external/DEV3304_1/qvr
4) mount /share/external/DEV3304_1/qvr /share/CACHEDEV1/ext_drive
5) Use the Web GUI to create a Share, say "USBhdd" and use manual path "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/ext_drive"
6) The USBhdd is selectable in the Surveillance Station advance setting screen and recording is now done in external USB.

[FRAD]

Thanks for your reply. I‘ll try it later

[AlastairStevenson]

4) mount /share/external/DEV3304_1/qvr /share/CACHEDEV1/ext_drive

Isn't that transient / won't it disappear at the next reboot?

[urukhai]

Isn't that transient / won't it disappear at the next reboot?

You r right. I put this mount in the autorun.sh

[MatthewFIU]

The beauty of Linux is that everything is a file in the file system. My USB HDD was connected as "/share/external/DEV3304_1". What I did in SSH was:
1) Format the external USB HDD in format Ext4 via Web GUI
2) mkdir /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/ext_drive

Was "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/" already present? It's not there on mine, and I don't think you can run the above mkdir unless it's already there. Did you create it first, then sub-directory "ext_drive"?

Edit: Oh, I see, according to this, on my model I should be using MD0_DATA:

HDA_DATA ... first single HDD storage volume of a legacy or "Home" feature class NAS.
MD0_DATA ... first RAID storage volume of a legacy or "Home" feature class NAS.
CACHDEV1_DATA .... first storage volume on a stroage pool on a current "SMB" feature class NAS.

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So, running into a problem with the next step. On mine, after running:

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mkdir /share/MD0_DATA/ext_drive
mkdir /share/external/sdr1/qvr

the next step would be:

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mount /share/external/sdr1/qvr /share/MD0_DATA/ext_drive

But, I get the probably obvious error:

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mount: /share/external/sdr1/qvr is not a block device.

Was there a mistake in the urukhai's mount instruction, or am I missing something?

[nssimpson]

Hi All, I hope everyone's keeping safe and well.

Can anyone please tell me step by step how to do this on a TS-212P? (I got stuck after formating the drive to be honest).

Thank you all

Nick

[anthonyo60]

Hello,
I'm looking to record on external USB drive too
If someone can share with us
Thanks

[spile]

One thing you can do is to back up events to a usb drive using HBS3. These are events made with QVR Pro to be clear.

[yorky2010]

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mount /share/external/sdr1/qvr /share/MD0_DATA/ext_drive

But, I get the probably obvious error:

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mount: /share/external/sdr1/qvr is not a block device.

Was there a mistake in the urukhai's mount instruction, or am I missing something?

I tried
mount --bind /share/external/DEV3303_1/qvr /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/ext_drive
Which seems to work (using surveillance station, QVR Pro can't seem to select a folder only a volume which this isn't). Basically did mount --bind and your folders to suit.

Note in urukhai's instructions it was also missing the _DATA bit after instruction #4 CACHEDEV1 (CACHEDEV1_DATA) in case that confused anyone. Plus my external drive was named different as per my example above.