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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:47:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsnapshot - crontab?
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On 2013-03-15 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-15, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> I'm especially interested in how best to test for the
>> existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the
>> backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't.

>  From /etc/rsnapshot.conf:
>
> # If no_create_root is enabled, rsnapshot will not automatically create the
> # snapshot_root directory. This is particularly useful if you are backing
> # up to removable media, such as a FireWire or USB drive.
> #
> no_create_root  1

How did I miss that?

Thanks Grant.