2009/1/7 Jai Harrison <[email protected]>: > There's a small problem with that. Namely that my external HDD is > often not connected to my laptop so automated (as oppose to manual) > backups will most likely fail. Is there something similar but based > around manual backups? Also, do tarballs preserve permissions were I > ever to need to restore it? >
So just remove the cron job from /etc/cron.daily and run it manually as and when you like, and let it do a full backup each time? Alternatively you could add a line to /etc/cron.daily/backup-manager test -f /media/disk/some_file_only_on_usb_disk || exit 0 So it only backs up if the usb disk is attached (and that file exists on it). It's very flexible. Take a look at the conf file which contains lots of comments about what the options do. Worth a look. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
