On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:39:24PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > I was browsing the website of a computer supplier and saw an ad for an > HP "Simple Save" external disk drive, which automatically initiates a > hard disk backup (on Windows) when the disk is plugged into a USB port. > > Later this year I'll be sending my daughter to University with a > Fedora-loaded laptop (she grew up on Linux :-) and have been thinking > about backup options for her -- and this sounded like a cool approach. > Instead of the unsafe autorun-file technique, though, I picture an app > that would check the UUID on disks (or the maybe the FS volume name) as > they are plugged in, and when a UUID is recognized, backup would > automagically commence. > > But before I go off and write such a tool ... anyone know of an existing > apps that does this? (yum search doesn't seem to be finding any likely > candidates). To trigger a backup via one of the utilities in the Fedora repos, you could try a udev rule to detect when the "backup" disk is plugged in. For example rules, see: * http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/ * rpm -qd udev * http://tinyurl.com/udev-sample The part you're interested in is RUN+= and documented in the udev package (rpm -qd udev). NOTE: The tinyurl redirects to https://github.com/jumanjiman/external-disk/raw/master/src/75-external-disk.rules hth, -paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
