Since the backup dir is within the mountpoint your existing check:
if [ ! -d ${BACKUP_DIR} ];then
echo "Backup destination directory ${BACKUP_DIR} not exist."
echo "run 'sudo mkdir ${BACKUP_DIR}' to create. "
exit 1
fi
Will work fine. If the disk isn't mounted then the backup dir w
On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 12:56 -0400, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> --timeout is about network connection timeouts. You aren't using the
> network so it doesn't apply at all. Even if you were networking an
> unmounted filesystem is an empty directory as far as rsync is
> concerned
> and rsync would
--timeout is about network connection timeouts. You aren't using the
network so it doesn't apply at all. Even if you were networking an
unmounted filesystem is an empty directory as far as rsync is concerned
and rsync would treat it that way with no idea that you intended to have
something mounte
I have a script that runs nightly as a cronjob to backup my drive to a
USB drive https://pastebin.com/yivqrGUC On the command line I use the
--timeout option. Is this sufficient to ensure that if the external
drive somehow becomes unmounted that rsync will gracefully fail without
trying to write to
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13609
Bug ID: 13609
Summary: rsync can be crazy slow on os x 10.13.6 when copying
via usb drives
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.3
Hardware: All
OS: All
Sta
