Hi, I asked this before, but no one answered, so I will try again :) I am using a large (500G) external USB disk as backup media. It performs reasonably, so no sweat.
Problem is: Is there a way to do a pre-check to see if the drive is actually mounted and, if not, just skip the scheduled backup? It would be easy to put a do_not_backup file in the directory over which I mount the remote. I could then do a test to see if that file is present (no disk) or if it is absent (something was mounted over it. Unfortunately I have no idea where to put such a test in BackupPC! Can someone help me, please? Related issue: I would like to use a small pool of identical external HDs in order to increase further security. Aside from switching the disks round-robin with a certain time interval (weekly?) is there anything else to be done to notify BackupPC it has a new media to use? I guess not, but I would like someone to confirm this. Thanks in Advance Mauro ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
