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Author Topic: Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?  (Read 3932 times)

heliotrope

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Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?
« on: August 05, 2011, 09:16:51 AM »
Hello again-
I'm still struggling with the stupid email thing.  However, I've got another idea.  Is it possible to use a crontab script to mount and unmount the USB drive after rsync?  The USB drive has anonymous read/write permissions by default (barf) so I don't want to keep it mounted.  I know (I think) how to mount/unmount, but how do I find out if rsync is done/successful?
Thanks!
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ivan

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Re: Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 09:40:14 AM »
Ask that over on the other site as well - you should get answers there.
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heliotrope

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Re: Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2011, 09:50:09 AM »
Again, trollpatrol here.  Stop giving me useless information here, and go troll somewhere else.
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threepwood

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Re: Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2011, 10:09:29 AM »
I guess you could parse the output of rsync for common error messages.
But I don't see why you shouldn't unmount if the process was not successful. I'd just do
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rsync blah blah; umount /mnt/USB/HD_c1/
( /mnt/USB/HD_c1 being where the USB drive is mounted on my DNS-320)
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heliotrope

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Re: Mounting/unmounting usb drive for security reasons?
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2011, 11:35:19 AM »
Seems like a good way to do it.  Thanks!
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