Craig, On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Kimball writes: > >> Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need help. >> >> The documentation for UserCmdCheckStatus says: >> >> [snip] >> >> But it still runs the backup (and writes over my mount point for >> my external drive) >> >> I've verified that the script returns a non-zero when the drive is >> not present: >> >> sillyHost:~ backuppc$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l kimball 192.168.0.21 / >> usr/local/bin/checkHonker >> Checking for Honker >> Honker NOT mounted >> sillyHost:~ backuppc $ echo $? >> 1 >> >> What am I missing? > > What version of BackupPC are you running? Thanks for the reply, but I discovered (and later discussed on this list) what the problem was: My script was checking for the existence of the backup volume, which does not exist on Mac OS X when it is unplugged (it's a firewire disk, and when unplugged, /Volumes/Honker disappears). However, before this script is run as the before dump check, backuppc checks that /Volumes/Honker/Backups (my preferred backup location) exists, and creates it if it does not exist - only it gets created on the local drive, because the firewire drive is unplugged. Thus, my script was always returning a successful return value. See later posts from me about possible solutions and work- arounds. Thanks! -- Kimball ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
