On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 17:12 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon June 16 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Faubackup is intended to run as a cron.daily script: Make > > sure /etc/faubackup.conf is sane before that runs next, as it does NOT > > make sure that there's a filesystem mounted at that mountpoint before > > continuting. If you don't either disable faubackup's cronjob or ensure > > your backup filesystem is going to be there when faubackup runs, it'll > > run nightly. > > thanks for the heads-up. Since mt backup external drive is NOT always plugged > in, I will disable that cron job. I strongly suggest either plugging it in and using the cron job, or change the cron job to check for the mounted filesystem. The "always-plugged-in" option is a bit cleaner and easier: No human intervention required for daily incremental backup. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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