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Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backing up a USB-disk?]:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +0000, Magnus Larsson wrote:
>> You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
>> myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
>>
>> See
>>
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_clientnamealias_
>> See also $Conf{BackupsDisable} on how to disable automatic backup of a
>> particular host:
>>
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
>
> note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
> whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f
/path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
> if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file
> system - please ask if you need more details). Then you can even keep
> automatic backups running (just in case you forget manual backups and the
> disk happens to be plugged in at wakeup time).
Or using the default config which says that if the share backup is
empty then consider it a failure. Thus you can allow backuppc to
regularly attempt a backup automatically, if the USB disk is not
connected then it will fail, if it is connected then you get a new backup.

Regards,
Adam
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