I don't believe you are having a "mount" problem.
I'd like to know what error you get from the backup program (along with any 
relevant log entries) and the output of "mount -l"
ET 

 

Trent Shipley writes: 

> My machine automounts an external drive with root permissions.  My main
> goal is to use the drive for backups, which seem to fail even though the
> GUI back up program runs a sudo window before launch. 
> 
> 
> How can I mount the drive at a stable mount-point?  
> 
> How can I automount it with universal permissions? 
> 
> 
> I am on Ubuntu 9.10. 
> 
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