I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works.
Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb harddrive and unmounts cleanly?
-thx bazooka
adjust the following to your needs
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb ext3 dev,auto,nouser,rw,sync 0 0
Just be careful on boot up, I had trouble on boot when the drive was already connected ... it wasnt recognized. I had to put up a boot delay onto the kernel command line to make sure the drivers where all awake when the mounts occur.
Jobst
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastfish@gmail.com) wrote:
I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works.
Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb harddrive and unmounts cleanly?
-thx bazooka _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
At Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:14:59 +1100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
adjust the following to your needs
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb ext3 dev,auto,nouser,rw,sync 0 0
Just be careful on boot up, I had trouble on boot when the drive was already connected ... it wasnt recognized. I had to put up a boot delay onto the kernel command line to make sure the drivers where all awake when the mounts occur.
The OP might also want to label the file system and use the 'LABEL=' option instead of /dev/sd<mumble> -- this will allow things to work properly in the event that the USB drive gets mapped to a different SCSI id for some reason (maybe someone put in a thumb drive or camera or something).
Jobst
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastfish@gmail.com) wrote:
I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works.
Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb harddrive and unmounts cleanly?
-thx bazooka _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
As for the mouting (and unmouting) you're backup script needs to make sure the drive is UN-mounted at the end, e.g.
# flush the buffers sync # unmount umount /mnt/usb
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastfish@gmail.com) wrote:
I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works.
Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb harddrive and unmounts cleanly?
-thx bazooka _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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