William John Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 07:49 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
> Thanks to everyone,
> I found it, using the idea of making a tar file - thanks
> Mogens. [I don't know why booting of a USB system didn't have the same
> affect. Maybe I was careless]
> The tar file was 60Gb, so I actually made it and inspected it and
> found that the problem was:
> * I have a big USB disk
> * I Make a nightly backup to this disk of /home /etc for 2 machines.
> * As it is USB. gnome mounts it under /media WHEN I LOG IN
> * If the machine reboots without my log in the USB is not mounted
> * The autobackup rsync looks for and fails to find /media/backup
> - so it makes a new one WHICH IS in /
The way I protect against that happening is to give my backup prog a
destination that is actually a symlink to a subdirectory on the
external drive. If the drive is not mounted the backup process
complains about the broken symlink and fails. Use of a subdirectory
on the external drive is to protect against the case where the drive
is not mounted but the mount point directory in /media somehow did
not get deleted.
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Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
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