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USB external hard drive -- mounting

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Greetings:

I'm in the process of setting up a new server, running Debian Jessie 
8.9, replacing a Windows Server 2003 box (the same physical hardware).

One of the functions of this server is to automatically (via a script 
run from cron) back up data (mostly on other servers, via FTP and SCP) 
from other servers in the network, to a USB external hard drive.

I was pleasantly shocked when the NTFS-formatted USB drive auto-mounted 
as read/write, as soon as I plugged it in, without my having to apt-get 
anything.

So far, I've got one of these auto-backup scripts working, after a 
fashion. But there are problems: because the external drive is currently 
auto-mounted, (1) the location of the drive in the file system is 
dependent on what user was signed on to the Gnome desktop when it 
auto-mounted, and (2) if no user signs on to the Gnome desktop, it 
doesn't get mounted anywhere.

In addition, it mounts as "/media/<user>/Seagate Expansion Drive". Not 
only is this a bit of a mouthful when specifying a pathname in a script, 
and dependent on what user is signed on when it auto-mounts; it's also 
dependent on that physical drive (or another self-identifying the same), 
which would make swapping it out for a new drive potentially problematic.

And when it is unmounted, the mountpoint goes away.

I can't even determine *what* is doing the auto-mounting, and the more I 
read, the more confused I get: I see automount; I see usbmount; I see 
pmount; I've barely figured out how to see what packages are installed, 
and nothing jumps out at me as being what's auto-mounting the drive.

Can anybody advise me on how to set this thing up so that if it's 
plugged in, it will mount, to a consistent mountpoint, whether anybody's 
signed on to Gnome or not? And when it's inevitably replaced, its 
replacement will continue to do so?

--
James H. H. Lampert

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USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-28 23:30 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 01:10 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 02:20 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 03:40 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 13:00 +0200
          Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:10 +0200
            Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 21:40 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-29 04:40 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:30 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:50 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 21:10 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-30 00:00 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 04:00 +0200

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