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OK, I?m a little more optimistic about getting a solution to this problem: I have two terabyte USB drives, so that I can back up files from my desktop without having to stuff gigabytes of data up a 128 Mbps pipe. In my dream world, a backup happens like this: (1) I plug the USB drive into the desktop. (2) The desktop, recognizing the UUID of the drive it just mounted, runs a backup script (perhaps throwing up a confirmation dialog box to whoever is logged in). (3) When the script completes, one of those little flashing GNOME notification-thingies appears on my screen: ?Backup completed; you may unmount the drive? or ?Backup failed: see /var/log/mumble for details?. (4) I unmount the drive, unplug it, and put it in a safe place. I?m sure the hooks for ?run this script when mounting such-and-such a device? and ?throw up a notification thingy? exist somewhere, but I don?t know where.
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