Am 03.01.2014 um 08:57 schrieb Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Leon Fauster > <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: >> Am 02.01.2014 um 20:34 schrieb Ken Smith <kens at kensnet.org>: >>> Fred Smith wrote: >>> 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 >> > Even though it is a workaround - I myself like to use > /export/backup -- I do not think that solves the original question. At > work our fileserver, an ubuntu box, mounts its backup drive into > /mnt/backup just like Ken wants to do. And it works exactly as he > wants. I wonder if something is doing housecleaning in /mnt. thats why i suggest to try it in backup. Thats not a solution, it is more a heuristic way to get close to the problem (after evaluating the results). -- LF