another mount/unmount question

[rdlsmith]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Ah, it's in a sparse image on an external drive; got you. No, we won't automount in that case. Is there a reason you're not writing directly to the drive?

I think so. Security? I think that was it. If I back up to a regular partition, anyone that walks off with the drive can mount it. A sparse image, if created first with the DU can have a password and it can't be opened if you don't have the password. You can't even backup to it without the password.

Also, the sparse image will grow as needed to the upper limit you created it with or space available on the drive. True? I think that's right. A partition, you pretty much have to know. You may only need 50 gigs today but 200 next year. That's a lot of wasted space.

Finally I like rolling backups. Now and then I'll make a permant backup. A snapshot if you will of how things looked on a particular date. Well, permanent until I replace it with another permanent one. The number of these I keep and how long I keep them sometimes will be determined by how much space I have on the drive. Images just work better for that.

Back to the original problem. I'm just learning AppleScript but I would think there's a way to schedule a script? If so, I could just call my mount script 2 minutes before the scheduled backup and then let the scheduled backup unmount when finished by calling the unmount script. That's gotta work yes?

Maybe I should find an AppleScript forum?

Hey, consider this a request. I'd like to be able to run a script before the backup job. I mean it needs to run before SD! does anything. That would work nicely for what I'm trying to do.

No matter, SD! is still the best backup solution I've ever used for a home computer.

Keep 'em spinning!