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Mount / unmount external drive for Backup use
Authored by: rflorence on Mar 16, '07 08:28:03AM

It is probably not a good idea to select an arbitrary time period for which the drive is mounted and hope that it is long enough to complete the backup. Why not use a backup script that would make the backup contingent on the mount and the dismount contingent on the completion of the backup?

mount ... && backup ... && umount ...

Or, launchd includes a mechanism that initiates actions when a specific directory has changed, which could be used to automatically start the backup when the backup volume is mounted.

- Ronald Florence



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