Backup simply does not work

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Hi,

I am trying to create a backup drive for my Umbrel using this drive, but when I told Umbrel to reformat it to exFAT, it still didn’t accept it (it started out as NTFS). Then, I tried rebooting, but it tried to use the new drive as a new drive. I had to unplug power and grab the drive, then reboot the system. I manually formatted it to ext4 using my Laptop afterwards (I saw that the reformatting to exFAT worked on the Laptop), but that still said it needs reformatting. So, I reformatted it as ext4 on the Umbrel, and it still didn’t do anything.
In the logs, I can see that there were no issues, and lsblk -f on the Umbrel shows it as correctly formatted, but the menu still asks to reformat it.

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That’s weird, can you share your Umbrel’s logs to see if there is another issue somewhere that might be causing this?

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Nov 09 00:44:33 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Formatting device sdb as ext4 with label UmbBackup
Nov 09 00:44:33 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Cleaning partition table for device sdb
Nov 09 00:44:37 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Removing all filesystem signatures for device sdb
Nov 09 00:44:38 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Creating new partition table for device sdb
Nov 09 00:44:38 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Waiting for changes for device sdb
Nov 09 00:44:38 umbrel kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Nov 09 00:44:39 umbrel kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Nov 09 00:44:39 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Creating ext4 filesystem for device sdb
Nov 09 00:44:48 umbrel umbreld[930]: [files:externalstorage] Successfully formatted device sdb as ext4 with label UmbBackup
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It works without issues when using SSH, though I did have to mount it

umbrel@umbrel:~$ ls /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1
umbrel@umbrel:~$ ls /dev/sdb1/
ls: cannot access '/dev/sdb1/': Not a directory
umbrel@umbrel:~$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/UmbBackup
umbrel@umbrel:~$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/UmbBackup/
umbrel@umbrel:~$ ls /mnt/UmbBackup/
lost+found
umbrel@umbrel:~$ cd /mnt/UmbBackup/
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ ls
lost+found
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ echo "test" > a.txt
-bash: a.txt: Permission denied
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ sudo echo "test" > a.txt
-bash: a.txt: Permission denied
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0 931.5G  0 part /mnt/root/swap
                                      /swap
                                      /data/umbrel-os/var/lib/docker
                                      /var/lib/docker
                                      /data/umbrel-os/home/umbrel/umbrel
                                      /home/umbrel/umbrel
                                      /mnt/root/mnt/data
                                      /mnt/data
sdb           8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk
└─sdb1        8:17   0 931.5G  0 part /mnt/root/mnt/UmbBackup
                                      /mnt/root/sd-root/mnt/UmbBackup
                                      /sd-root/mnt/UmbBackup
                                      /mnt/UmbBackup
mmcblk0     179:0    0 119.1G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part /run/rugpi/mounts/config
├─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0   128M  0 part /boot
├─mmcblk0p3 179:3    0   128M  0 part
├─mmcblk0p4 179:4    0     1K  0 part
├─mmcblk0p5 179:5    0     5G  0 part /run/rugpi/mounts/system
├─mmcblk0p6 179:6    0     5G  0 part
└─mmcblk0p7 179:7    0 108.6G  0 part /mnt/root/var/log
                                      /var/log
                                      /mnt/root/var/lib/systemd/timesync
                                      /var/lib/systemd/timesync
                                      /mnt/root/kopia
                                      /kopia
                                      /var/lib/docker
                                      /home
                                      /data
                                      /run/rugpi/state
                                      /run/rugpi/mounts/data
zram0       254:0    0   5.7G  0 disk [SWAP]
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ sudo nano a.txt
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ ls
a.txt  lost+found
umbrel@umbrel:/mnt/UmbBackup$ cat a.txt
Test