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On 12/01/18 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> I usually also include a check to ensure that some file/directory |
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>> > exists which I expect to be on the drive, which prevents the backup |
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>> > script from dumping a full backup into your mountpoint if it isn't |
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>> > mounted (possibly on a filesystem with insufficient space - |
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> Yep, that's being done. The backup won't attempt to run if the |
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> external drive isn't mounted. |
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Dunno quite how it works, but you could automate everything through |
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udev. When I stick something in, KDE offers to mount it for me, in |
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/run/media/$USER/abcd-efgh. |
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I think that last bit is unique to the media, and the same every time, |
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so you could make udev detect that something's been plugged in and, if |
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it's your backup drive, auto-run the backup. |
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Or, of course, if your backup expects the drive at that location, it |
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simply refuses to run if that location doesn't exist. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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