Back up to disk automatically when disk is inserted

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2020-01-30 15:53, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:20:46 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:10:35 +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>>> Failing this, is there some way for my script to check whether the boot
>>> process has already ended?
>>
>> You could do the following: Check /var/log/messages and look
>> for the _timestamps_ of
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 	Slightly less inelegant, compare the inode change timestamp of the
> device entry with the last reboot time.
> 
> 	In shell ls -lc /dev/whatsit and last reboot will get the data - if
> they differ by more than a minute it wasn't there at boot.
> 

Thanks for all the suggestions.



Is there no way to check whether the "login:" prompt is ready?
Would "ps ax|grep getty" work?

  bye & Thanks
	av.