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theFisher86
Asked: 2012-03-24 06:45:07 +0800 CST

Run Command before automatic backup

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I've been using the Deja Dupe to run automatic backups on my system. The problem I'm having is my server at work occasionally times out and essentially un-mounts my windows shares from Nautilus. I'd like to find a way to run nautilus smb://windowsmountpoint before it Deja Dupe runs the automatic backup. I can't imagine this feature not existing, I just don't know how to do it!

backup 11.10 deja-dup

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  1. Best Answer

    There probably is a way but it's probably not that pretty. I'd probably suggest making the connection to the server more reliable.

    I'd suggest something like an /etc/fstab-cifs mount like this:

    //servername/sharename  /media/mountname  cifs  guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode  0  0

    You can tailor that to use credentials if you need.

    If that's still dropping off, you can use autofs which is great for dynamically mounting things.

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