On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:13, Daniel Bloemer wrote: > Hi, > > Alan Brown wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: > >> I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there > >> is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and > >> unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file > >> (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. > > > > Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to > > do this for you automagically? > > I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the > hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. > > I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has > avoided all my attempts until now.
If you label the disk (using the filesystem's label commands: e2label for ext2, xfs_admin -L <label> for xfs, etc), then when the drive is detected, it should have a mount point created in /mnt/<LABEL>. At least that is the way it works on my Mandrake 10.2 system. I have an XFS formatted drive in my USB enclosure with the label BackupDrive. When I turn it on, a mount point is created at /mnt/BackupDrive and an entry is added in /etc/fstab. Of course, you could always mount the drive manually at a known location: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MyKnownLocation j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
