Hi Les,

Thanks for the help. Comments below.

> It doesn't have a concept of it's archive directory being 
> gone, though.  You'll probably have to start and stop the service when 
> you connect/remove it.

Would it be difficult to add this feature? I imagine that I'm not the 
first person to try to use an external disk as a backup medium. But it 
is the nature of an external disk that it might not be connected.

If I had to start/stop the service every time I connect, I'd probably 
get tired. I don't think that this is a long term solution. Perhaps it's 
possible to add something similar to:

if ( ! -d $Conf{TopDir} ) {
     print (LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "No backup medium\n");
     exit(1);
}


Looks like a simple and generally useful addition. Is there any chance 
that this might be added to BackupPC?

Daniel.

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