Doing one's own rsync and cron scripts

Should be fine. Create your own file in /etc/cron.d that points to your own script. You can look at /etc/cron/frontview-backup and see it uses cron entries and a vague idea of what layout you'd need to use in your cron file.

You won't obviously get the benefits of viewing and configuring jobs in Frontview or Frontview's email alerts about backup jobs and you won't get help with this from tech support.

May I ask what versatility that you're after is Frontview missing in regards to rsync and cron jobs?

Thanks mdgm,

won't obviously get the benefits of viewing and configuring jobs in Frontview

Agreed - but I'm used to 'once set - forget'.

or Frontview's email alerts about backup jobs

true though I should be able to set the text file output to a location on a share (or on my computer). In either case, in linux I should be able to pick these up and have them forwarded to me by email.

you won't get help with this from tech support.

True - I was hoping to be able to set it up so it doesn't interfere with Frontview - maybe even allowing Frontview scheduling still to work if desired.

It doesn't seem there are inherent problems in Frontview to do this I don't know about then - thanks.

Though I don't know how to instruct ~ReadyNAS to terminate power to the USB ports - if it is even possible. My USB drives gives me no indication they have been unmounted.

Thanks for your help.

David

Hi, new here, and so ask for indulgence. This thread appears to be the most relevant place to lodge this one...

Like Davidr, we have implemented our own rsync backup to external USB drives, using EnableRootSSH. This gives us finer control over timing, mounting, error handling, disk rotations, reporting, etc.

All is working perfectly, however the underlying USB external drive automount is still occurring even though our scripts are managing the mounting themselves. This appears to have no adverse affect, other than I feel uncomfortably asking users to switch drives which are still mounted (not by our scripts, but by the automount).

Is there any way to disable external USB drive automount on the NVX without breaking other subsystems?