-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just my thoughts on how to resolve this issue....
Create a script (cygwin/bash or windows bat or whatever suits you) which will run either each time a USB device is plugged in (I think there is a windows setting to run a program whenever a USB device is plugged in), which will rsync the USB drive to a local copy on the internal HDD of the laptop/computer. Then, backuppc can backup the copy on the internal HDD, which will always exist. Possible considerations: * You now have another additional backup of your USB drive, right there on the same computer. This could be handy for the user to restore a file themselves, or you could try and obfuscate/hide this local backup from the user. * You may end up storing a complete copy of the external memory card on multiple computers, not a problem for backuppc, as it will only store one copy * You may not like the data to be stored on the local computer (could encrypt it, as long as your restore process is able to decrypt it later) * How do you know that the backups are working? The backup script creates a file (or updates the mtime) on the USB stick before the rsync copies the contents across. Then, have a logon.bat script which will look at each local backup folder (for each USB drive/memory card) and check the special filename to see the last modified date/time. If it is too old, inform the user that you haven't seen that memory stick for a while and prompt them to back it up. If it turns out that the stick doesn't belong to them or similar, then they should remove the archive folder from the local PC. * Performance issues in accessing data on the memory stick while the rsync is happening in the background? Consider setting bwlimit from rsync to 50% of the maximum transfer rate, also consider other flags that might be able to say "if the size and date/time match, then don't check the contents of the file". This is similar to what an incremental backuppc backup does by default (I think). * Don't forget the delete options to remove files from the archive which are no longer on the memory device. * Consider some sort of logon script or similar which can be used to update the scripts that are executed at logon and also for USB plugin. Too long is a policy decision... This will allow you to setup backuppc to always backup every laptop/desktop c:\archive or whatever. Finding the location of the file to restore still requires to ask the user where they last used the memory stick, but it does help ensure it is always up to date. Every potential solution has advantages and disadvantages, I just wanted to mention the above as another option. I hope it is helpful. Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5psFIACgkQGyoxogrTyiWWDgCgu+aVmAqHmUPE7soSQkT9qqxf BLMAninirdByFb5Ckd6VTzNe0tL4kgqY =zfW/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted across the IT space for its ease of implementation, lower cost, and increased reliability. Learn more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51425301/ _______________________________________________ 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/
