On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:47:06PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. Interesting. I guess it works like old RS232C line for UPS which exchanges special codes. You can write simple script to run backup instead of CRON.