Great, thanks!!

That part on checking whether the disk is mounted - could you give me
some more details on that? Never used such a script here. 

Magnus


ons 2009-06-10 klockan 23:57 +0200 skrev Holger Parplies:
> 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:
> > 
> > > What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
> > > backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
> > > connected to already is a backuppc host?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > > This would mean defining one host as a subdir of another host, in the
> > > config.pl. With the same host name and ip. 
> 
> No. Instead:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> You might also want to set EMailNotifyOldBackupDays or EMailNotifyMinDays.
> 
> Regards,
> Holger
> 
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