Am 02.01.2014 um 20:34 schrieb Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org>: > Fred Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:23:26PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> >>> Fred Smith wrote: >>> >>> Indeed but what? :-( >>> >> I'd guess some unintended side-effect of the backup program/script. >> >> > The bash commands in the earlier post are manually entered in a > terminal. The cron job isn't active. Even if I set the file read only it > vanishes ( eg chmod 500 /mnt/backup). Bug in umount? try the same in /backup and not in /mnt -- LF