Do you have any partitions on sdc? Ice sdc1 vs sdc2 ect
On Jul 5, 2013 10:54 AM, "Michael Havens" <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay.... I am doing it your way but I have a problem:
> $ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc
> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
> /dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> /dev/sdc is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc
> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
> /dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> mke2fs: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size
> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$
>
> so what is wrong?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:
>
>> From: Michael Havens
>> > Okay Matt (or anyone else who wants to answer this), could I do this:
>> > first I make a directory in the usb [disk] called 'bmike1-backup'
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > sudo mkdir /backups
>> > sudo mount /sdc1/backup-bmike1 /backups
>> > rsync -av /home/bmike1
>> > sudo umount backups; sudo rmdir backups <-make everything like it was
>>
>> Why all the sudo invocations? The procedure I gave earlier only requires
>> 2
>> things to be done as root: Make a mountpoint for the device, then add an
>> fstab entry for that device. Do those things and then you can back up
>> your ~
>> as a normal user, no root anything required.
>>
>> Also, your mount syntax in that script is incorrect unless your distro is
>> doing something very odd. And USB devices are not guaranteed to have the
>> same
>> device names; the USB disk at /dev/sdc1 may be /dev/sdd1 or /dev/sdb1
>> depending on how many other USB storage devices are plugged in. That's
>> why I
>> said you should make a filesystem with a label on it. Do that on your USB
>> disk. If it already has a filesystem on it, you can do "tune2fs -L
>> A_NEW_LABEL /dev/whatever" to change the filesystem label without
>> zorching the
>> filesystem.
>>
>> Once you've done these things, the script would look like this:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> mount /mnt/backup
>> if mount | grep /mnt/backup > /dev/null ; then
>> rsync -av --delete-after /home/bmike1/ /mnt/backup/bmike1
>> umount /mnt/backup
>> else
>> echo "backup disk not mounted; can't back up"
>> fi
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matt G / Dances With Crows
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