>
> Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you achieve the same result  
> by using the automounter? The the drive is present, the automounter  
> would mount it up and then BackupPC would be happy. If the drive  
> isn't present, the mount should fail and BackupPC would error out  
> because its directory tree would not be present.
>
> Perhaps it's not as pretty as the scripted solution you're using, but  
> I think it should "just work" otherwise.
>
>
>   
Never had much luck with the automounter doing things the right way. It 
always wants to auto mount on directories under /media, and the 
directory can either be a label or a made up name.

i prefer mounting and unmounting explicitly and choosing my own 
directory mount points.

BackupPC would still try to create the top level directories even if the 
drive never mounted, and thus they would end up being created in the 
root filesystem and not on the mounted drive. That would be bad.

Les





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