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TacoSteemers committed Oct 12, 2013
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## USB Storage Back Up Daemon
The daemon will back up all mounted partitions on USB storage devices.
This project is known to work on some GNU/Linux distributions. usbud depends on the availability of items such as '/sys/block' and '/proc/mounts', the application 'rsync'.

**Important note: the USB storage back up daemon should not be confused with a 'full' backup solution. It should be used in conjunction with a 'full' backup solution.**

## Features
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## Instructions on running the daemon
The daemon can be run with a command like the following:

./usbstoragebackup --target /home/user/mobilestoragebackup --blacklist /home/user/mobilestoragebackup/blacklist.txt;
./usbstoragebackup --target /home/user/backup --blacklist /home/user/backup/blacklist.txt;

The blacklist file might look like the following:

Western Digital My Book 57442D574341E53443303937383936 My Book
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 899000000000000000000073 DataTraveler 2.0
InphiCHN Mass Storage Device USB Flash Disk

These identifiers can be obtained via the uslist application:
The listed items will not be backed up. These identifiers can be obtained via the uslist application:

$ ./uslist

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