[Box Backup] USB sticks (was: Suggested change in behaviour)

[Eduardo Alvarenga]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ben Summers wrote:

>> What about the situation where the user has a USB stick and would 
>> like it's contents to be backed up too whenever the stick happens to 
>> be plugged into the computer but sometimes it is not? Under SuSE I've 
>> seen such devices receiving hard to remember names and am not sure 
>> they get the same name every time you plug it in (can't really say 
>> since they were hard to remember). But this is going off topic.
>
> I suggest a little script which monitors when the stick is plugged in
> (seeing what the USB daemon is doing), then when it's mounted uses
> rsync to mirror all the data on the hard disc somewhere.

  hotplugd(8) should do it on OpenBSD and Linux, with little differences.

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