On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 07:03:01AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > For now I've set up my backup script to sync, sleep for a bit, then use
> > umount -f.
>
> Meaning, sync(8) before the umount?
> Everything else being the same?
> And that works?
In this case, it's the -f on umount that does the trick
> For now I've set up my backup script to sync, sleep for a bit, then use
> umount -f.
Meaning, sync(8) before the umount?
Everything else being the same?
And that works?
> It seems brash to ask, but is there a chance that there could
> be a bug elsewhere in the system?
No idea, but I have had
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:43:00AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> Right, "fstat /home" just treats /home as a named file arg
> (which is not "open" by anything).
Thanks all for the thoughts on this problem. I can discuss some of the
troubleshooting issues mentioned, unfortunately with no relief for the
On 2025-04-07, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:09:29PM +0100, TSS wrote:
>> Everything is just fine until step 4, when the backup drive refuses to
>> unmount. If you try to do it yourself, you see:
>>
>> umount: /my_backup_mount_point: Device busy
>
> This invariably mean
Sorry, be aware that the displaied proc works on /etc before to try anything !!
Dan
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Apr 8, 2025 11:27:43 Dan :
> 1) an error handled ~ error prone unmounting proc:
>
As I also work heavy on usb disks as well, as per my own statistics
I also have to denunce to often encouter an overwhelming quantity of "disk busy
errors" ,
but it seems to happen more often after dealt on disks by gui software like
Thunar or Caja.
For what concern your script maybe you can
On Apr 08 06:56:53, sema...@kapouay.eu.org wrote:
> TSS writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been using this gimmick for backing up some OpenBSD 7.6 systems:
> > https://github.com/thexhr/openbsd-timemachine
> > For the purposes of this discussion, it:
> >
> > 1. uses hotplugd to run a script wh
On Apr 08 08:34:16, o...@drijf.net wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:14:34AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> > On Apr 08 06:56:53, sema...@kapouay.eu.org wrote:
> > > TSS writes:
> > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I've been using this gimmick for backing up some OpenBSD 7.6 systems:
> > > >
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:14:34AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Apr 08 06:56:53, sema...@kapouay.eu.org wrote:
> > TSS writes:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I've been using this gimmick for backing up some OpenBSD 7.6 systems:
> > > https://github.com/thexhr/openbsd-timemachine
> > > For the
TSS writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been using this gimmick for backing up some OpenBSD 7.6 systems:
> https://github.com/thexhr/openbsd-timemachine
> For the purposes of this discussion, it:
>
> 1. uses hotplugd to run a script when you plug in a USB backup drive
> 2. this script mounts the backup
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:09:29PM +0100, TSS wrote:
> Everything is just fine until step 4, when the backup drive refuses to
> unmount. If you try to do it yourself, you see:
>
> umount: /my_backup_mount_point: Device busy
This invariably means some process has one or more files open in
the file
On 4/7/2025 2:09 PM, TSS wrote:
Greetings,
I've been using this gimmick for backing up some OpenBSD 7.6 systems:
https://github.com/thexhr/openbsd-timemachine
For the purposes of this discussion, it:
1. uses hotplugd to run a script when you plug in a USB backup drive
2. this script mounts the
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