OSMC Backup to SMB NAS

[darwindesign]

Maybe try something like…

//192.168.1.100/OSMC /mnt/osmc cifs x-systemd.automount,noauto,rw,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/osmc/.credentials,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,vers=3.0 0 0

but autofs is a better way than fstab and if you wanted to go that route I’d suggest to check out the following guide…

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

Also it would be prudent to actually check you can write to the mount at the terminal before bothering with the backup utility in Kodi…

touch /mnt/osmc/write-test && ls -la /mnt/osmc

That being said a system mount isn’t necessary. I’d suggest to go to settings>file manager>add source>browse>add network location> and enter only your server name and credentials. At this screen leave the shared folder empty. After you click “OK” on that screen you should now have this as a location in the browse list. You can choose to add your mount point or not as a source to file manager (note sources in file manager are a different set than the library sources). When you go back to the backup location setting in the My OSMC add-on and browse you should see the new location available to navigate into (if you already have a path set you may need to click the up folder navigation button to get back to the top level where you can see it).