Re: off-site backup plan

From: JD Austin <jd@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/ .

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