Les Mikesell wrote:
> The reason for backing things up is that things go wrong. Things can go
> wrong that destroy everything in the same location. If you don't have
> at least 2, the backup copy is going to be in the same location as the
> only other copy you have at least part of the time.
I was planning to use a remote server for that (just get a hosting
account with cheap disk space, or use Amazon S3 or similar).
>> On my system the disk always reliably mounts on /media/Daniel. You just
>> need to give the partition a label ("Daniel") which I would do anyways,
>> simply because I like the disk having a memorable name.
>
> But unless you do a custom install, that's not where backuppc is going
> to want it.
??? I might have misunderstood something. Don't I just set
$Conf{topDir} = '/media/Daniel/Backups' ?
>> Anyways, checking that the backup directory exists seems like a no
>> brainer, even if you don't think specifically of the case of external disks.
>
> External or not, yanking a disk out from under a running application is
> a little drastic.
Well, in my mind, I wasn't planning to do it while it's actually backing
up. If BackupPC makes a backup every hour, I don't mind waiting until
it's quiet to unplug the disk and take my laptop to the bedroom.
> umount should not be able to complete if any process has open files or
> its working directory. You can't do that sort of thing when you run
> server processes.
So there's no problem. If I try to unmount and BackupPC is doing
something I just wait until it's finished and then take the laptop to
the bedroom.
>> It's only a 2-3 line change. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable
>> addition to BackupPC...
>
> Maybe not, but it is quite a philosophical change from the environment
> that typical unix server programs expect. Most people building a backup
> server would probably start with a stable box expected to be up for
> years even if the targets come and go.
Jeffrey just gave another, perhaps more typical example: The backup
media might be an NFS share. You might want to check if that is mounted
or not (and possibly try to mount it if it's not).
Daniel.
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