Le Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:41:30 +0100,
Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:43:09 -0400 Claude <claude AT phyto.qc DOT ca> wrote:
> > As I'm using BackupPC since many years for all my computers and
> > laptop I'm wondering if it is possible to setup an automated backup
> > system to catch my many usb dongle as I'm comming back to the
> > office. 
> > 
> > I want to insert these in a usb bay until next morning so backuppc
> > will detect them and make a backup
> > 
> > How to proceed. Is it possible to format these usb dongle to give
> > them a unique name so backuppc will recognise them as they are
> > plugged into the bay
> 
> I do something similar with my android phones:
> 
> I set up automount to mount the phones on fixed locations. Then I
> created a backuppc 'host' with a custom ping command of
> "sudo /var/lib/backuppc/bin/checkhandy.sh /misc/schieber" where
> checkhandy.sh is:
> 
> ===
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo "Checking for directory of mobile phone (with arguments '$*')"
> |logger
> 
> lockfile=/tmp/backuppc-lshw.lock
> 
> sleep $[$RANDOM%3]
> 
> if [ ! -e $lockfile ]; then
>         touch $lockfile
>         lshw >& /dev/null
>         rm $lockfile
> else   
>         while [ -e $lockfile ]; do
>                 sleep 5
>         done
> fi
> 
> if [ -z $1 ]; then
>         dir=/misc/schieber;
> else   
>         dir=$1
> fi
> 
> ret=-1
> [ -d $dir ] && ret=0
> 
> echo "Will return $ret for directory $dir" |logger
> 
> exit $ret
> ===
> 
> Then its just a matter of backing up /misc/schieber in this case.
> 
> Running lshw in that script is needed on my headless server as
> otherwise it wouldn't recognise the partition-table on the mobile.
> With an usb-stick you can probably do without.
> 
Thanks Arnold,

I will give it a try. Do you need to put that script in a specific
location or can I put it in /usr/local/bin


-- 
Claude Gélinas agr.
Phyto Ressources Inc

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