Hi,
I asked this before, but no one answered, so I will try again :)

I am using a large (500G) external USB disk as backup media.
It performs reasonably, so no sweat.

Problem is:
Is there a way to do a pre-check to see if the drive is actually mounted
and, if not, just skip the scheduled backup?
It would be easy to put a do_not_backup file in the directory over which
I mount the remote.
I could then do a test to see if that file is present (no disk) or if it
is absent (something was mounted over it.
Unfortunately I have no idea where to put such a test in BackupPC!

Can someone help me, please?

Related issue:
I would like to use a small pool of identical external HDs in order to
increase further security.
Aside from switching the disks round-robin with a certain time interval
(weekly?) is there anything else to be done to notify BackupPC it has a
new media to use? I guess not, but I would like someone to confirm this.

Thanks in Advance
Mauro

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