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| Anton (feenstra) wrote Re: It lacks a special Notebook feature | #3 |
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(Get the code!)
Meanwhile, you may consider an alternative. You can put an 'autorun' script on the USB stick that launches the backup. I've done that on my external disk, but that one only runs the backup config, so I can push 'make backup now' (that was actually still using sbackup). Presumably, you could likewise start the whole backup process in the background.
(One caveat comes from Gnome's security features. You will *always* have to click 'yes' on two different notice windows to actually run the autorun script.)
As to TimeMachine, I've started using TimeVault that does similar things. It can write to an external disk, and IIRC it will gracefully stop and re-start when the volume is removed and re-inserted. It's still in beta phase (0.7.3 now), but already seems to work quite stably. It's in the Ubuntu repo.
(by the way, there isn't anything particular to notebooks about this feature...)