On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 09:49 -0400, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 4/26/2012 9:29 AM, Ben Stanley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have configured bacula for my home network consisting of 5 machines, > > backing up on to a USB hard disk. > > > > Initially, I configured it using the recommended configuration for hard > > disks, that is, to mount the HDD externally to bacula (fstab or by the > > desktop environment), but I found that this arrangement is too fragile, > > and my backups were failing. Additionally, this runs on a server > > machine, and there is no automounter (and I didn't want to install > > autofs). > > Why don't you want to use autofs? I have been using autofs to mount USB > drives for quite a while without any issues. > Unfortunately, on Ubuntu, autofs seems to have all kinds of strange issues with locking up. It seems to be best avoided. (I do use it in other contexts involving nfs, and it gives me all kinds of grief.)
Josh, I referred to quite a bit of your earlier work while I was figuring things out. Thanks for what you have published. I'd appreciate your comments on whether looking for the volume files under the mount point is sensible. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
