Am 15.12.2009 20:29, schrieb Rich Shepard: > I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether I should keep my external drive > unmounted when not in use and mounting it prior to running > '/sbin/dirvish-expire' > and '/sbin/dirvish-runall'. Is it also advisable to have dirvish mail me a > daily report that it ran and had no errors? > > This should be the last step prior to going live. > > Rich
Rich, I'd say yes on both. For our server, I use bare HDs in an SATA stand connected via USB to the server. It is intended to backup to this HD for a week, then I change it and take it home with me for storage. There is a clock which switches the power supply of the HD stand on about 5 minutes before cron starts the backup. Off-time is at 3 hours later, which is enough anyway (it never has taken more than 90 - 100 minutes yet). As it doesn't mount automagically, the script will mount the HD by itself. For me, this makes things easier as it ensures the HD under a definite name. The drawback is that I cannot leave anything else in the server like USB stick etc., for the backup HD would need another name then - how should the script know? This would make it necessary to test for a tag file or thelike on the backup HD, and that makes things more complicated again. As to mail, yes there are surprises in the backups. If you let it run and trust all is running fine, ok for you. But a backup is an automatic procedure, and it's better to care for it from time to time. I don't remember if I defined anything for it, it just comes up with a digest mail to root every morning, and I let it forward to my account so my Thunderbird can collect it (which uncovered a bug in TB, by the way). Hope it helps... :-) Rolf _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
