On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Mauro Rezzonico <l...@ch23.org> wrote:
> Joakim Aronius wrote:
>
>> I added a big disk over USB which I use for
>> backup (mounted on /backup).
>
> Well don't do that!
>
> Mount under /usr/backup, or /var/backup, or /tmp/backup or whatever!

And/Or wrap the backup script with something that checks for the mount.

Horrible shell script example:

FSMOUNT=`mount | grep -c backup`
if [ $FSMOUNT -ne "1" ]; then
        echo "Backup partition not mounted, aborting"
        exit 1
fi
if [ $FSMOUNT -eq "1" ]; then
        echo "Backup partition found, continuing"
fi

Amusing results of disk unmounting itself during the backup left to the reader.

-- 
Jon

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