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Mounting NFS before backup

Asked by wwjd

It's me again. :)

Is it possible to mount a NFS location before backing up with deja-dup?
How would I do this?

Thanks again!

wwjd

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

Hmmm. Deja Dup will mount things like external hard drives or remote ssh servers, but I'm not sure about NFS. I don't think NFS is integrated into gvfs, so it would not work like you want.

To do it manually and hackily, you could try to use a deja-dup wrapper that mounted it? Like a custom 'deja-dup' command in ~/.local/bin or something.

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wwjd (wwjd) said : 		#2

Thank you, now I wrote a script which mounts the NFS location before starting deja-dup.

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wwjd (wwjd) said : 		#3

Thanks Michael Terry, that solved my question.

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Michael Kurz (michael-kurz) said : 		#4

Hello!

I have the same problem.

I have found a lot of backups without data!! I think, in these cases was the windows location, which I will save, not mounted.

Is it not possible, that Deja dup will mount a partition for self???

I think, at least Deja dup should prompt a message windows, if a selected source for backup is not mounted!

I am a linux beginner and I do not know, how I should write a script (or wrapper) for mounting the windows location before starting Deja dup.

Can you please help me for automatic save a selection of folders on a windows location by starting ubuntu?

Regards,
Michael Kurz