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Trigger off rsync by just plugging in a USB drive?

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Mar 15, 20266404 views
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I'd like to know if it's possible to automatically mount, and fire up rsync to sync a USB drive with a directory? Specifically, I'd like to copy as much data as the drive can hold and only delete the oldest files if space is needed. I would assume I'd do something like this with a script, but my pr…

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You are probably going to want to look into a Udev rule to launch a script. What's good about udev rules is you can lock down what usb drive is used for backup so not every usb drive fires it off. First step is to get your udev rule going: Here is a…

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