Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (670 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Robert Lewis <bob.l.lewis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I realize that this is probably the wrong list to be writing this.
> However, it would seem like something to make more user
> friendly unless I am being foolish with such a question.
>
> I have a USB drive that I use to backup my important files to
> where the USB drive has an ext filesystem.  I wrote a script
> to do the backup but I find that when I plug in the USB drive
> it doesn't always end up as the same device so my script
> fails or needs changing each time to reflect where the drive
> went.  Yes, it's obviously a mountable drive.
>
> When I plug it in my SUSE 11.0 pops up a screen saying it noticed
> the device and asks me if I want to open it.  That works.
> Then I know where it is and can point my script to it.
> However, I want to have my program figure it out or have
> a specific USB port reserved for this purpose.


I've been needing to do something similar. I haven't tried anything at
all yet, but predicted the situation you describe. I found this method
rather interesting [1], maybe you can adapt some or all of it to fit
your needs.

[1] http://andri.dk/tech/linux/usb-backup
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx