TonyF

Thats the one i was using. I wanted to avoid assigning a script to every individual drive (Theres quite a few usb drives and i dont have them all at once to preset). I guess if thats the case i can maintain a flat file database to determine what was just plugged in and run the routine only on that one.

I have common script so that when users plug in their USB drive it copies the files from a specific folder to the array. The usb gets automounted, backed up and then unmounted. I have set up a usb hub so that multiple usb drives can be plugged in at once. The script works fine however the issue i am having is when a second usb gets plugged in the common script gets executed again on the first usb which causes it to backup twice. I though the common script gets called once for the device that gets plugged in and not on all plugged in devices? Is this intended? Is there a workaround so it only runs once on the drive? There are many of these backup drives so i would like to do it from a common script if possible but cant have it run multiple times on each plugin. Just to add for clarity i start my script with the following. case $ACTION in 'ADD' ) if [ -d $MOUNTPOINT ] then