Comment 4 for bug 185167

I've implemented this for my wife as an autorun script on the external
disk, which starts the backup. This works in Ubuntu (I don't know about
other distro's). The only drawbacks are that it pops up a window asking
the user if she want to execute this removable medium, and that you'll
be depending on a proper setup in the configuration file, that will not
be on the external disk. I do this with sbackup, but I'm sure it will
work with nssbackup as the only feature you need is a command to start
the backup.

It wouldn't be difficult for [ns]sbackup to have an option in the gui to
install itself onto a particular external disk.

You could get some level of authorization by setting a custom backup
path (possibly including a hash key in its name) that points to a
directory on the external disk, and cancel backup if it doesn't exist.
That way, any other USB drive with the same autorun script, would not
get the backup.

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Groetjes,

Anton
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