DD does not work well with part time mounted places like truecrypt volumes

[Felix]

DD gives an "no access" error when tryin to write the scheduled backup to a not mounted truecrypt volume, like
"/media/truecrypt1/backup_DD"

Please make it detect that all folders under "/media" are removable like normal external harddiscs. DD should handle this more gently, maybe give us some time to plugin and mount the drive manually.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Can you explain a little bit about truecrypt volumes? When/how are they mounted? What do they look like to the system (are they fuse...)?

[Felix (apoapo)]

Truecrypt Volumes are files or whole partitions. They can be on external harddiscs or just your internal drive. This does not matter.

To mount these files/partitions at first Truecrypt is started with root permissions. Then you have to select that file/partition in Truecrypt and enter a password. If that password was correct Truecrypt mounts the partition at /media/truecrypt[1-100].
The number can be choosen freely and therefore should not be changing.

I told DD to use /media/truecrypt10 as my backupdestination. Because of this i have to mount my external drive manually at position "10" each time DD reminds me of a backup (with the error popup cause destination folder is missing) and then restart the DD manually.

Thank you for your engagement!

[Felix (apoapo)]

Sorry for noise.

The mounted partition/file looks like a normal folder to the system.

E.g. can be umounted with "sudo umount /media/truecrypt10"