Hi Daniel, No, not quite.
If you want a clean file system on the drive you are going to remove you must temporary stop BackupPC and unmount the file system first. When the drive is removed you can mount the file system again and start BackupPC. This will cause the RAID to run in degraded mode if you only have one disk left in the RAID, but will otherwise work as usual. (You don't have to run in degraded mode if you are rotating four disks in the scheme I proposed.) Stopping BackupPC and unmounting the file system can't be done by hotplug, because it is already too late. You don't have to stop BackupPC when you attach a drive. Just plug it in and add it to the RAID with "mdadm --add", which you might be able to get hotplug to do for you. Best regards, /Martin Leben Daniel Denson wrote: > I think I understand your want in that you would like to have backuppc > check that a drive is hooked up before trying to use it for backups. If > I am correct then I would suggest you build a quick daemon script that > starts backuppc when the device is hotplugged and stops backuppc when > unplugged. I dont know what your linux distro is but hotplug scripts > are pretty easy, do some google work to get the file and method for a > hotplug script on a specific device. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/