any way to prevent this from happening? I can see the benefit of this behavior, but for my purposes it's rendering my backup script useless.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:37 AM, John Abreau <abre...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is the same behavior you would get if you unplugged the thumb drive > without properly unmounting it, then plugging it back in; the old directory > doesn't get deleted, and then the next time the system tries to mount the > thumb drive, its name is already in use, so it has to come up with a > different > name for the new mount point. > > Maybe the thumb drive powers down while idle and the usb subsystem loses > track of it, while there's still a process that has the directory open. > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegah...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of Nagios boxes here in my office. > > I've written a backup script that compresses all of my configuration > files > > and copies them to a USB thumb drive each evening. The exact path the > > files are copied to is /media/Nagios_Backup > > > > About 6 months ago I noticed that the /media folder contained a folder > > called "Nagios_Backup" and a folder named "Nagios_Backup_". Much to my > > surprise, I found that for some reason the directory name of the thumb > > drive had changed to "Nagios_Backup_", and that my backups were going to > > the old directory, which seemed to reside only on the hard disks. > > > > I adjusted the path of my backup destination to "Nagios_Backup_" and > > assumed this behavior was just a fluke. > > > > Today I went in to check the backups and found three folders: > > /media/Nagios_Backup > > /media/Nagios_Backup_ > > /media/Nagios_Backup__ > > > > For whatever reason, the thumb drive is now mounted with two underscores > at > > the end. As a result my backups have not been saving to the USB drive. > > > > This situation is really annoying as I can no longer rely on my backup > > script to copy files to the drive due to the changing path. > > > > Has anyone seen this before? Anyone know why this is happening? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Chris O'Connell > > http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com > PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 > -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
