On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 20:27:34 -0600, Dale wrote: > > If you wait for a few seconds after the backup is completed before > > you unmount the drive, you should be OK. Although it may slow down > > or any LEDs flash less frequently the drive may not stop spinning, > > unless there is some power save process taking control of it. > > > > Given the speed, it is likely done when I tell the KDE thingy to > unmount. Usually, I start the backup and walk away for a few minutes. > I do it with one of my scripts, if one can call what I do a script, and > it does the date command at the end.
Add a sync command to the end of the script to make sure all filesystem buffers are flushed to disk before it finishes. -- Neil Bothwick We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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