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semi-automatic backup to USB drive

Subject: semi-automatic backup to USB drive
From: lemmuh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (David Hummel)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:05:51 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Seth Gordon <sethg-Dp9fwfP21SfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
[...]
> (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?.
[...]

How about a simple e-mail notification?  This would decouple it from
whatever desktop environment you happen to be running, and you could
use one of probably many mail notification widgets for your particular
environment.

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