>Hmmm ... have you created (touch'ed) the file /mnt/backup/connected on the
>backup drive? If not, the script is failing to perform the backup because
>the conditional in its if statement (if [ -f /mnt/backup/connected ];)
>fails. And the script has no instructions for what to do if the if test
I've made several suggestions inline. But skip to the last one first, since
it's my best guess about what your actual problem is.
At 05:35 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hi Ray, thanks for your usual excellent tips. Here's what I've done...
1. mount -t smbfs -o username=linuxadmin,password=
Hi Ray, thanks for your usual excellent tips. Here's what I've done...
1. mount -t smbfs -o username=linuxadmin,password=password,workgroup=wowcorp
//backup/e /mnt/backup
Result: no errors
2. df shows:
/dev/hda2 37334192 5252668 30185052 15% /
/dev/hda1 101089 2
At 02:20 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
My setup:
1 Linux RedHat 9 kernel
I don't know if this part of the info matters, but identifying a kernel
this way is almost useless. More useful is to report the output of "uname
-a" and mention if you are using a stock or locally-compiled version of
My setup:
1 Linux RedHat 9 kernel
1 Windows 2000 backup machine with 2 firewire hot-swap drives attached
(named 'backup')
- firewire drives have been partitioned and ready to roll
- drives are lettered/named, respectively, e/Granite1, and
f/Granite2
- linuxadmin/password s
