davec
07-12-2006, 03:51 PM
Hi there,
Happily using SD for mirroring my system drive to an external USB2 HD every day.
Problem is, to save wear and tear I power down the External HD when not in use.
This then means that when SD powers up for a scheduled backup and finds the drive isn't mounted or that it can't mount it, it gives up and reports an error.
So... What I REALLY want it to do is to start the scheduled backup by popping up a dialog asking me to mount the missing drive AND STAY THERE, until I either tell it 'no thanks, don't do a backup' or I mount the drive then say 'OK go ahead now'.
I get the feeling I could write a 'shell script' to do this, but it's a bit out of my league, so can anyone help?
Thanks
Dave
N.B. if you run the backup manually it does EXACTLY this - waits till you mount the drive or say cancel. That's what I want - it prompts me to make the backup and hangs around till I tell it not to.
DRC
Happily using SD for mirroring my system drive to an external USB2 HD every day.
Problem is, to save wear and tear I power down the External HD when not in use.
This then means that when SD powers up for a scheduled backup and finds the drive isn't mounted or that it can't mount it, it gives up and reports an error.
So... What I REALLY want it to do is to start the scheduled backup by popping up a dialog asking me to mount the missing drive AND STAY THERE, until I either tell it 'no thanks, don't do a backup' or I mount the drive then say 'OK go ahead now'.
I get the feeling I could write a 'shell script' to do this, but it's a bit out of my league, so can anyone help?
Thanks
Dave
N.B. if you run the backup manually it does EXACTLY this - waits till you mount the drive or say cancel. That's what I want - it prompts me to make the backup and hangs around till I tell it not to.
DRC