On Nov 20, 2007 12:43 PM, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to implement this: > > I have: > > - A windows 2000 server > - A centos 4 server > - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. > > The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to > switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the > windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow. > > I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server > since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I > decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec) on > the linux box. > > So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB > drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then > rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS is > about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning that I > can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup exec > settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise. > > My questions is: > > -how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the > person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will > always be only one HDD conected at the time. Longtime ago, I did the some on a ZIP drive. I used "automountd" I think, I'm sure about "auto" not about the remainder The ZIP drive was unmounted when unused for more than 5min. And remounted when trying to access is mounting point. I googled a little but did not find anything. Otherwhise you can suppose your employee will change the tape at a know time and add a script in the cron to dismount 1H before. Also you con dismount the drive using "plink" utility from window's putty package, from your windows server, when your backup is done! > > Thanks, > Ugo > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you