Usb ports on a dell thin client

Hardware
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I run HA on a dell 5020 thin client, with a internal SSD, which also has 4 external USB ports.
I already store a backup on a drive connected to my modem, but would also like to use one of the external ports for a second backup drive.
can someone tell me how to access the usb ports as I can’t seem to find them on my network.

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How are you trying to configure the network sharing of the drive? How do you run HA?

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You can’t put a drive on the USB ports without hacking the HAOS as root.
I don’t recommend it, but if you search the forum here you will find the thread about it.
Tips on Searching for Answers & Duplicate Topics in the Forum.

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Thanks for the replies.
I just wanted to take the backups off my google drive.
Will find another location to use.

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If you have another computer, you could connect it there, share it over network and configure the HA backup to use the shared drive.

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Option 1:
Use a USB hub. I do this on a couple of my Intel NUCs that don’t have enough USB ports for all the dongles and external storage.

Option 2:
Buy another micro PC and install Ubuntu Desktop on it. Mount a 2Tb SSD and share it. On your Home Assistant, install the Samba Share add-on. Problem solved.

I do both. The second option is also mounted on our family PCs as “Drive Z”. Everyone can read/write to it and it makes sharing files super simple.

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