[CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-21 Thread Håvard Sørli
>-how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the >person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will >always be only one HDD conected at the time. By a Stardome Enclosure, and at leas 3 disks. Then you always has the most current backup online in the raid -

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:43 AM -0500 Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will always be only one HDD conected at the time. This howto is targete

Re: [SPAM] Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread David Ferreira
I think It's very easy to do what you said using the hotplug facility and simple bash scripting. I've a system in one server that when you plug the USB disk, it mounts the disk, make a rsync which certain directories of the local file system, umount the drive, and send a email which logfile (yo

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Alain Spineux
This is autofs package The automount program is used to configure a mount point for autofs, the inlined Linux automounter. automount works by taking a base mount-point and map file, and using these (combined with other options) to automatically mount fi

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Alain Spineux
On Nov 20, 2007 12:43 PM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to implement this: > > I have: > > - A windows 2000 server > - A centos 4 server > - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. > > The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I d

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > I'm trying to implement this: > > I have: > > - A windows 2000 server > - A centos 4 server > - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. > > The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to > USB external

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Chris
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:43:54 -0500 Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to implement this: > > I have: > > - A windows 2000 server > - A centos 4 server > - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. > > The tape drive in the windows server died rece

Re: [CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread David Ferreira
I've used simple scripts for similar backup system. I used hotplug facilities and rsync to avoid copying inecesary data. You must see the USB id which lsusb in /etc/hotplug/usb/ create the folowing two files: usbhd.usermap containing the folowing line: usbbackup 0x0003 0x05e3 0x0702 0x 0x00

[CentOS] Backups on external USB HDD

2007-11-20 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I'm trying to implement this: I have: - A windows 2000 server - A centos 4 server - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the window