off-site backup plan

[JD Austin]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com>
> > I do the backup to usb using rsync method and it works well.
> > One gotcha is that depending on where they plug it in it can be sda,
> > sdc, sdd etc.  I wrote a script to figure out where it is
>
> *Wrote a script*?
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/ , /dev/disk/by-uuid/ , and the -L option to mount
> are probably better solutions for that.  Movable disks get labels
> written to their filesystems, unless they contain crypted FSes,
> which means I have to fall back on /dev/disk/by-id/ .
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows
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>
> Tried that.. doesn't work with Fat32 drives :)
I wanted them to be able to just plug the drive into their computer if the
fileserver failed.
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