well... I restarted but it didn't seem to have any effect. I saved the script to the desktop and made it executable and when I activate it the computer accesses the USB twice (after three seconds.... after three seconds it accesses it then 3 seconds later it accesses it again, but it will only do that once. subsequent activations of the script do nothing). Well I figured out I need to run it from a terminal. bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ./Backup\ bmike1 building file list ... done rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9] bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ so I made /mnt/backup/bmike1 but got this error: rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/backup/bmike1/.": Operation not permitted (1) then it went through and copied the stuff in ~ and went on to mkdir for the next directory to copy and got the ol permision denied thing. hmmmm maybe if I run it with sudo! but matt said no sudo should be necessary. So what is wrong? Furthermore, how do I access the backup drive? I checked in the directory I created but there is nothing in there so I assume it copied the files to the USB drive: bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup/bmike1$ ls /mnt/backup/bmike1 bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/mnt/backup/bmike1$ :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > now I need to restart for the new line in fstab to be recognized? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> From: Michael Havens >> >> 3. Make an entry for the partition you made in your /etc/fstab : >> >> LABEL=MY_BACKUPS /mnt/backup ext3 noauto,users,noatime 0 0 >> > In step 3 the "LABEL=..." entry in fstab makes it so that whatever has >> > the label MY_BACKUPS will be seen as the proper device regardless of >> > whether it is sdc, sdc1, sdd, etc....? >> >> If you have a LABEL= entry in your fstab, then when you mount the >> mountpoint >> for that entry, ("mount /mnt/backup" here), mount will query each block >> device >> in the system and ask it "Is your label MY_BACKUPS?" If it gets a "yes" >> answer, it will mount that block device on that mountpoint. mount knows >> where >> the filesystem labels live on all commonly used filesystems (ext234, >> reiserfs, >> xfs, jfs, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, HFS+, and there are probably others I'm >> forgetting), and it can do this check pretty quickly under normal >> circumstances. >> >> If you have 2 block devices on the same system with the same filesystem >> label, >> and then you try to mount by label, stupid things will probably happen. >> So >> don't do that. >> >> -- >> Matt G / Dances With Crows >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >