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2018 Sep 11
2
Ensuring that rsync doesn't try to write to an unmounted drive
I have a script that runs nightly as a cronjob to backup my drive to a
USB drive https://pastebin.com/yivqrGUC On the command line I use the
--timeout option. Is this sufficient to ensure that if the external
drive somehow becomes unmounted that rsync will gracefully fail without
trying to write to the hard drive instead of the USB drive?
rsync -vaWSHpl --timeout=15 --delete-excluded --filter "merge
$...
2018 Sep 11
1
Ensuring that rsync doesn't try to write to an unmounted drive
...t;
So, would it be ok to leave it as is or do I need to add the above to
check for the actual mount point?
>
> On 09/11/2018 12:28 PM, Chris via rsync wrote:
> > I have a script that runs nightly as a cronjob to backup my drive
> > to a
> > USB drive https://pastebin.com/yivqrGUC On the command line I use
> > the
> > --timeout option. Is this sufficient to ensure that if the external
> > drive somehow becomes unmounted that rsync will gracefully fail
> > without
> > trying to write to the hard drive instead of the USB drive?
> >
> >...
2018 Sep 11
0
Ensuring that rsync doesn't try to write to an unmounted drive
...the root of
the filesystem then it will exist either as an empty directory or a
mount point and you need to check for those possibilities.
On 09/11/2018 12:28 PM, Chris via rsync wrote:
> I have a script that runs nightly as a cronjob to backup my drive to a
> USB drive https://pastebin.com/yivqrGUC On the command line I use the
> --timeout option. Is this sufficient to ensure that if the external
> drive somehow becomes unmounted that rsync will gracefully fail without
> trying to write to the hard drive instead of the USB drive?
>
> rsync -vaWSHpl --timeout=15 --delete-exclud...