Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
Chris Dennis wrote: > John Cooper wrote: >> 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. >>> >>

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
Chris Dennis wrote: > John Cooper wrote: > > > Have a look at this USB suspend script:- > > > http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html > > That all looks very elaborate. Is it really necessary? Does this mean > that good old 'umount' hasn't been workin

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread Chris Dennis
John Cooper wrote: > 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

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread Brian Chivers
John Cooper wrote: > 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

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread John Cooper
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 t

Re: [Hampshire] Safely unmounting a server's external hard drive

2009-08-15 Thread Timothy Brocklehurst
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

Re: [Hampshire] apache redirection problem

2009-08-15 Thread Tom Gamble
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 04:31 -0700, Peter Alefounder wrote: > If I use a web browser to look at a local html or pdf file, is it > possible to set things up so that a link to an external web site is > redirected to the local file system? > > I have tried a .htaccess file along these lines: > > Rew