Kimball Larsen wrote:
> 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?
I think if the mount point does not exist, backuppc should fail, but if
it exists as an empty directory whether it is considered a successful
run or not would depend on your setting for BackupZeroFilesIsFatal. If
that doesn't work you could add a DumpPreShareCmd to run a script that
will fail (exit non-zero) if the drive is not present and succeed if it is.
--
Les Mikesell
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