Run Command before automatic backup

Question

I've been using the Deja Dupe to run automatic backups on my system. The problem I'm having is my server at work occasionally times out and essentially un-mounts my windows shares from Nautilus. I'd like to find a way to run nautilus smb://windowsmountpoint before it Deja Dupe runs the automatic backup. I can't imagine this feature not existing, I just don't know how to do it!

Answer 1

There probably is a way but it's probably not that pretty. I'd probably suggest making the connection to the server more reliable.

I'd suggest something like an /etc/fstab-cifs mount like this:

//servername/sharename  /media/mountname  cifs  guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode  0  0

You can tailor that to use credentials if you need.

If that's still dropping off, you can use autofs which is great for dynamically mounting things.