Re: [Astlinux-users] USB disk automount in Astlinux

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> The idea was to mount the disk not only at startup but each time the disk is plugged and keep it switched off most of the time but I'll have to mount it with a custom script instead of automatically.

Gonzalo, Make certain you 'umount' before unplugging or powering down the USB disk.

Periodic network/cloud backups also work well.

BTW, AstLinux supports a 'wol-host' command to wake a network device that supports Wake-on-LAN ... some testing is required for particular hardware.
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Usage: wol-host [options...] ipv4_addr|name

Options:
  --mac MAC    Manually define the MAC address, aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff, default none/auto-lookup
  -p pass      Append aa:bb:cc:dd[:ee:ff] password to the WoL packet, default none
  -P, --ping   Follow WoL packet with a series of ICMP (ping) packets to host.
  -t secs      Max time (in secs) to send ping packets, default 180
  -v           Verbose mode
  -h, --help   Show this help text
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So, if everything works correctly, an AstLinux script could initiate a backup by first sending a WoL packet to wake a network file server, perform the backup and then let the network file server sleep after a period of inactivity.

Lonnie




> On Apr 29, 2023, at 4:52 AM, Gonzalo <gon...@ho...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you Ionel and Lonnie.
> 
> The idea was to mount the disk not only at startup but each time the disk is plugged and keep it switched off most of the time but I'll have to mount it with a custom script instead of automatically.
> I have a remote controlled switch which I use to power on the disk each time I want to perform a backup.
> 
> Regards.
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