Hi folks,

On my servers I back up data to a mounted nfs share (backend type: local). This share is mounted all the time (set in fstab). However I would like to have the share mounted only during backup.

To do this I removed the fstab entry for the share and added the mount command to the prevalidate hook in the configuration and the unmount command to the after hook. The problem is that I also have the forget: prune option for my location which I like there, but seemingly the forget command runs after the after hook, meaning by the time autorestic wants to forget old snapshots the share is unmounted and the command fails.

Is there a way to keep the mount/unmount in the hooks and use the forget: prune option in the location as well or I have to create a script which mounts, forgets, unmounts and put that into crontab or something?