rsbackup-mount(1)

💖 rsbackup-mount 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual section, and it's all about rsbackup-mount(1) — the little helper that gets your backup disks mounted (or unmounted) so rsbackup can do its thing. no cap, it's giving ✨disk wrangler✨ energy.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rsbackup-mount — mount encrypted or unencrypted disks used by rsbackup

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rsbackup-mount [OPTIONS] [--] [DEVICES]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea 🍵: rsbackup-mount mounts and unmounts encrypted or unencrypted partitions that are used as backup stores by rsbackup(1). that's it, that's the whole job. it's literally the bouncer for your backup disks 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --unmount, -u — unmount devices instead of mounting them. (the default is to mount devices, so if you want the other direction you gotta say so.)
• --check, -c — check for available devices that aren't open. 👀
• --dry-run, -n — do nothing at all, and instead just print the commands that would have been executed. it's the "look but don't touch" mode fr fr 🙈
• --key-file PATH, -k PATH — pass the argument --key-file PATH to cryptsetup. (yes, it forwards it along like a little relay race 🏃♀️)
• --help, -h — display usage message.
• --version, -V — display version string.

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🌈 CONFIGURATION 🌈

so, config lives at /etc/rsbackup/devices. it's a shell script fragment, which is lowkey iconic of it 🫶

it should set devices to a (space-separated) list of device names, and for each device name D, define D_uuid to its UUID.

if you need to specify that a device is unencrypted — meaning it just requires mounting or unmounting, nothing fancy — then define D_plain as a non-empty string for that device. ✨

tiny tip from the original: have a look in /dev/disk/by-uuid to find device UUIDs 🔍

💜 Example 💜

# List names of devices here
devices="backup3 backup4"

# For each device, define DEVICE_uuid
# e.g. devicename_uuid=8f4171f0-007d-4083-a40c-407e5f9c24dd
backup3_uuid=8f4171f0-007d-4083-a40c-407e5f9c24dd
backup4_uuid=80a1ca0d-d07a-4195-9da1-8cbb9fbc11b9

# For any device that isn't encrypted, define DEVICE_plain
# e.g. devicename_plain=1
backup3_plain=1

see how backup3 got that _plain=1? that's her telling you she's unencrypted and proud 🎀 and backup4? encrypted queen, no _plain for her 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• rsbackup(1)
• rsbackup.cron(1)

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> — the mastermind behind all this, we stan 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was rsbackup-mount(1) from the General Commands Manual — go forth and mount responsibly 🫶✨🌸

mwah — see u in the next manpage 💜