maggior;684775 Wrote: 
> Something I've learned the hard way is to verify that the drive you are
> backing up to is mounted prior to performing a backup operation with
> rsync.  It's happened to me twice now where I've corrupted my
> squeezeboxserver installation by having my backup script fill up my
> entire OS drive (root partition).  After having been hit with this
> twice now, I'm going to modify my backup script to check that the
> backup drive is mounted first before performing the backup operation.

If you have to mount the backup drive, have your backup script check
the return code from the mount to make sure it succeeded.


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