TuxRunner

Well, I’ve been testing out my new Pogoplug for about 2 weeks now. Most of what I’ve been doing is trying to come up with a backup scheme that works. I keep running into obstacles that make one process or another not work. Mostly revolving around the fact that the client software is designed to be run interactively (not as a service under windows, or a daemon under Linux), and that it’s kindof a “weird” drive mapping under Windows.  Robocopy really was cranky with it.
Well, I think I’ve decided on a Linux solution. I’ve done some decent work on getting an init script working so I can start up the Pogoplug mount or stop it with a RedHat “service pogoplug ” command.

Also, I have a backup script created now which will create a tar.gz file directly on the Pogoplug once it’s mounted.

I’ll post my init script for Linux once I test it more so you can use it if you want. It supports start|stop|status|restart|condrestart, although I haven’t tested the conditional restart (not sure I even understand why it’s needed).