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Re: what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?



On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a
> 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that,
> apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing.  the
> question is: what software would have been sitting there in the
> background, handling that?
>
>   i see no official .deb package for a maxtor, and there's nothing
> in udev about it so, trying not to sound overly dense, what should i
> be looking for that would have been the backing software to handle
> recognition of that drive?

  never mind, my mistake, the old backups were done via cron, not by
actual button pushing, although i can see that the kernel these days
does in fact contain support for the 1-touch maxtors.

rday
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