Re: Mount a Firewire disk
Re: Mount a Firewire disk
- Subject: Re: Mount a Firewire disk
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:36:12 -0700
At 6:53 PM -0700 7/23/05, Gil Dawson wrote:
Is there a way from AppleScript to mount my Firewire Disks?
At 10:35 PM -0700 7/23/05, Russ Kirkpatrick wrote:
I think you can just unplug the firewire cable and plug it back in
to re-mount them.
Yes, that works. What I'm looking for is a way to mount them from
inside an Applescript program.
At 7:44 PM +1200 7/24/05, Tom Robinson wrote:
Issue a shell command to call diskutil?
I looked at that, and I haven't been able to figure out how to code
the "device" parameter for a disk that is not mounted. I was hoping
someone here might have figured it out.
The rest of this message describes the reason that I'm looking for
this capability.
I'm trying to work out a comfortable system for doing backups on my
PowerBook. I have been using Retrospect for years, and I'm looking
at alternatives.
MimMac can create a bootable clone of my PowerBook's internal ATA
drive on a little MacAlly offboard FireWire drive. I've been running
MimMac daily for several months, studying it as a possible core
program in a new a backup procedure. Compared to RTetrospect, MimMac
is less invasive to my other work and runs fairly quickly. Each
time that MimMac finishes, I unmount the backup drive so that I don't
have a duplicate file system cluttering up my work. Next time, I
mount the backup drive manually (with Disk Utility, not by unplugging
and replugging, so as not to disturb other drives on my FireWire
chain) before starting MimMac.
I was very fortunate to have my internal hard disk drive fail
unrecoverably ten days ago and so learned how marvelous is having a
bootable clone. While my computer was in the shop, I could plug my
backup disk into another computer and keep all my work up to date.
When my computer came back days later, I booted from the clone and
MimMac restored the internal drive from the backup in about an hour.
The only data I lost was a few emails I had sent during the six hours
between the time of the backup and the disk failure. That's why I
want to do backups every night automatically while I'm sleeping, if
the PowerBook is plugged in.
MimMac isn't automatic, so I thought I might script it. I think I
see how to do most everything except mounting the backup drive.
After making the bootable clone, I like to unmount the backup drive
so that I don't have to worry about inadvertantly using a file from
the wrong disk. This I can do in AppleScript with a Finder command.
What I haven't figured out how to do in AppleScript is to mount the
disk again for the next backup.
--Gil
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