So, I've been using backuppc at my office to backup the PC's there (actually, they are all macs) to a linux server with a dedicated large backup drive. However, this is not taking a backup of the ENTIRE hard drive, but just a few selected important files. For my own laptop, I'd like to backup a lot more items that are not work- related - photos, music, other documents, mysql databases, some source code, etc.
I have an external firewire hard drive that I can connect to my laptop intermittently when I wish to have backuppc do it's thing. Now, on OS X, when you plug in an external hard drive, it will be mounted automatically at /Volumes/DriveName. If I set backuppc to run a few times a day, and have it pointing at /Volumes/DriveName, but the drive is not plugged in, will backuppc a) puke, b) create a new directory called /Volumes/DriveName and fill it, or c) gracefully quit and try again later? In essence, I will only have the external drive plugged in for a few hours each day, and need to get incremental backups to it when I am plugged in. Is backuppc really going to fit for this scenario? Thanks! -- Kimball ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
