Thanks John, this is a really elegant solution. Plugging in a USB stick however, CLI reports:
*FAT: Unrecognised mount option "relatime" or missing value* * * I checked the link you included but there's nothing obvious that would give this error. (My stick is formatted NTFS) Thanks Henry On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM, John Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > In short; create this file (* /etc/udev/rules.d/11-backup-auto-mount.rules > ) *by copying and pasting the text between the start and end tags: > > --- start --- > * * > KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="backup_auto_mount_end" > > # Import FS infos > IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N" > > # Global mount options > ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="relatime" > # Filesystem-specific mount options > ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="vfat|ntfs", > ENV{mount_options}="$env{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002" > > # Mount the device > ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/mount -o $env{mount_options} /dev/%k > /var/lib/asterisk/backups" > > # Clean up after removal > ACTION=="remove", ENV{dir_name}!="", RUN+="/bin/umount -l > /var/lib/asterisk/backups" > > # Exit > LABEL="backup_auto_mount_end" > > --- end --- > > You can then insert and remove your key without touching the system. (I'm > making a lot of assumptions about FreePBX that should be correct, for > example that it uses udev). > > Lots more suggestions on udev rules here: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices > > > -- > John Lange > www.johnlange.ca > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Henry Coleman > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for all the suggestions. So far I think that Doug' solution looks >> the most promising, however >> it needs automating so that inserting the USB stick will automatically >> "mount" the stick and disconnection will "umount" the stick. >> (A sort of plug and play if you will) Restore might work also based on >> this principle. >> >> So I'm gonna pick your Linux brains (again) and ask if this can be done? >> Henry [?] >> >> -- *Henry L. Coleman * ***Per: VoIP-PBX.ca * * *
