[Gllug] couple of quick questions (USB stick and backups)

[salsaman]

Tethys wrote:

>salsaman writes:
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>>1) On one machine I set up recently, auto mount of USB memory sticks is 
>>not working. When I plug the stick in, it gets recognised as /dev/sdb1, 
>>and a mount point /mnt/removable is created. /dev/sdb1 gets added to 
>>/etc/fstab correctly. If I manually do "mount /mnt/removable", then the 
>>stick is mounted and all is OK. What is missing that prevents this last 
>>step from being done ?
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>An entry in a udev config file that mounts the device. The entry is
>already there to create the mount point and so on. All you need to do
>is add a RUN key in the rule to mount it. See udev(8). There may well
>be an automount daemon that expects to do this sort of thing, but there's
>no reason to use anything other than udev here.
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>>2) I'm looking for backup software that can back up a running Linux 
>>system to an external drive. Does anybody have any good recommendations ?
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>tar(1)
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>Tet
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Will tar work on a running system ? Last time I tried this, it got stuck 
in a loop in the /proc filesystem, because /proc/<pid>/root is a symlink 
to the root filesystem. Backing up /dev is probably also not I good idea 
I suppose...

Gabriel.

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