Detecting external drive one-touch button?

[Paul Cartwright]

On 09/24/2013 07:42 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> I have an external Transcend disk drive which has a "One-Touch Backup"
> button that on a Mac or a Windows machine will start a backup program
> when pressed.
>
> I wasn't able to find such a program for Linux and I was wondering if
> there is a way I can detect the button press in Ubuntu so I can write
> a script or program that listens for this button press and executes
> the backup program or script of my choice to backup my photos.
why not just backup your stuff using a cron script?? automated... or do
you remove the drive often??

I backup my box to an external drive using rsync from a cron entry.

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Paul Cartwright
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