On Saturday 15 August 2009 00:38:07 Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks > > I'm planning to use one or more external USB hard drives to backup a > headless server running Debian. I'll probably use rsnapshot, with a > script that detects for the presence of the right drive. > > But how can the server tell the user when it is safe to unplug the > drive? Or maybe the user should somehow tell the server "I want to > unplug the drive -- stop using it and unmount it". > > The user's only way of communicating with the server is by email or > possibly via Webmin. > > Has anyone come up with a cunning plan to deal with this? > > cheers > > Chris > -- > Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com > Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
I would have thought that when your backup script is complete it would be easy enough to add an unmount command and a mail command to the end of the script. Thus the server unmounts the disk and e-mails the user to tell them that it's been removed. Cheers, Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
