• USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive.
• Latest version of LONE-TAR & RESCUE-RANGER 4.3.1.6

During the RESCUE-RANGER format of the USB device, it will make three total partitions. The first two will be for RESCUE-RANGER during Crash Recovery, and the third partition can be used for LONE-TAR backups. Make sure you know what the device name is for the USB drive.

Example:

If your system recognizes your USB device as /dev/sda

then the RESCUE-RANGER format on the USB device, will look like

/dev/sda1 <-- Reserved for RESCUE-RANGER
/dev/sda2 <-- Reserved for RESCUE-RANGER
/dev/sda3 <-- Reserved for backups

* If you wish only to use a USB drive as a emergency boot device and not a backup device, please proceed to the Set-up portion of this FAQ. If you wish to setup your USB device as a emergency boot device and backup device, please proceed with Pre Set-Up instructions.

# ltmenu
Select Option 9 (Device Manager) --> Select Option 'A' (Add New Device) --> Select Option 9 (NAS)

After entering the ALIAS name for the device follow screen displays below.
Your settings do not have to be exact as settings in images below.

Enter mount point. Directory MUST Exist.
* Mount point does not have to match demo setup.

Select option 3 for Block Factor of 120 (Fastest)

Select the capacity of your USB Device.
* Remember to change the capacity its [ TOTAL - 36 MB = Capacity ]

Select which compression setting you want.

Mount command: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /usbBackup
* Remember to change the device name to your device name on the system.

Enter mount point again.

Pick the rotation you want your backups to be setup as.
* Daily Rotation = 1 Backup File Stored
* Weekly Rotation = 7 Backup Files Stored
* Monthly Rotation = 31 Backup Files Stored

Answer YES to make default device.
* Only answer "YES" if you wish to make this a backup device to use during Crash Recovery.

Once the device is setup properly. We can proceed to the Set-up.

# ltmenu
Select Option 'rr' from Main Menu

Select option 2 (Image Administrator)

Select Option 5 (Create Bootable USB Hard drive or Flash)

RESCUE-RANGER recognizes my USB Drive as /dev/sda

If you have not already added the drive /dev/sda to the Hard Drive Exclusion List, please answer yes to above question and it will add the drive automatically for you.

Congratulations!
You are now ready to do backups to the third partition on your new Bootable USB Device. Enjoy!