Run job as soon as drive is mounted?

To take a snapshot manually you need to run: backintime -b
You can run this from a script but I don't know how to detect whe the drive is plugged in.

I haven't gotten it to work in my environment, for some reason I can mount the drive correctly but this script doesn't get executed when I connect/disconnect. Maybe you can try it and if you can get it to work you can respond back to the group here.

http://www.vitvar.com/blog/?p=12

Good luck,
Steve

Sorry, I should have said that this script can automatically mount a drive when connected to the network. You could probably use this script as a starting point and then modify it so that after it mounts the drive it could then run the backup script.

@the team: Thanks for Back in Time, I really appreciate this tool!

I had the same feature request as mentioned in this thread, so I took the liberty of modifying Back in Time a little. I added a little daemon that waits for drive mounts, then makes a snapshot / asks the user what to do / does nothing (configurable). Download here:

http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-common-0.9.26tjk_all.deb (replacement package 1) (need both)
http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-gnome-0.9.26tjk_all.deb (replacement package 2) (need both)

Or check the source:
http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-0.9.26tjk_src.tar.gz (source)
http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-mountmonitor-patch (diff)

Only works in Gnome for now... Also, I hope to find a way to make this work without running a daemon, using udev, dbus or something. That should be a minor change but I haven't figured it out yet.

Looking forward to your comments!

Thanks! We highly appreciate input, especially modifications that are on our
wishlist. Could you file your code as a separate branch in launchpad? Then
we can have a good look and probably merge that into our trunk!

Cheers,
Bart

2009/11/21 Timo Kluck <email address hidden>

> Question #87362 on Back In Time changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/87362
>
> Timo Kluck proposed the following answer:
> @the team: Thanks for Back in Time, I really appreciate this tool!
>
> I had the same feature request as mentioned in this thread, so I took
> the liberty of modifying Back in Time a little. I added a little daemon
> that waits for drive mounts, then makes a snapshot / asks the user what
> to do / does nothing (configurable). Download here:
>
> http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-common-0.9.26tjk_all.deb (replacement
> package 1) (need both)
> http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-gnome-0.9.26tjk_all.deb (replacement
> package 2) (need both)
>
> Or check the source:
> http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-0.9.26tjk_src.tar.gz (source)
> http://www.infty.nl/misc/backintime-mountmonitor-patch (diff)
>
> Only works in Gnome for now... Also, I hope to find a way to make this
> work without running a daemon, using udev, dbus or something. That
> should be a minor change but I haven't figured it out yet.
>
> Looking forward to your comments!
>
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Thanks for replying, I did what you asked. The branch is lp:~tkluck/backintime/mountmonitor