Re: [Networker] Backing up Mac OS X
2004-04-13 10:45:48
> > >On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Steve Rader wrote:
> > >Another low-tech solution: skip /Volumes and notify users that
> > >1) stuff mounted in /Volumes won't be backed up and thus 2)
> > >file systems they care about should be mounted elsewere.
> > From: Stan Horwitz
> > When an external disk drive is plugged into a Mac OS X system, it auto
> > mounts under the /Volumes directory. Is there a way to change that
> > behavior so it automounts under another directory?
> From: Steve Rader
> I haven't played with OSX's automounter, but the doc looks
> encouraging...
>
> http://www.opendarwin.org/documentation/automount.php
>
> I just tried my iPod--OSX didn't leave it mounted. (Which makes
> me wonder about the two times I've seen NetWorker backing up
> an iPod!?! Maybe it's 10.2 vs 10.3 thing.)
Sorry. I was wrong. "automount" is an NFS-only thing.
"autodiskmount" is the daemon that mounts (non-nfs) file systems
and it seems to use /etc/fstab in a reasonable manner. See
"man autodiskmount".
steve
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