Hi,

It's a pitty if this would only works with an auxiliary script, since this means I have to do a major rework of my cronjobs that call storeBackup. Also storeBackupMount needs root access to modify /etc/fstab.

My workaround now is to edit storeBackup.pl and place section

#
# precommand ausführen
#
...

before section

#
# initialise include, exclude and checkBlocks rules
#
...

With this small modification precommands are executed earlier and all mount are present when storeBackup checks for include/exclude files. And: not need for auxiliary scripts.

Does this change have any side-effects?

I use precommand to mount a sshfs. Works fine until I tried to exclude a folder with exceptDirs. The error is:
<pre>
ERROR     2015.12.04 21:46:26 21500 no directory resulting from exceptDir pattern <vdr>
</pre>
Where "vdr" is the folder I want to exclude.

expectDirs throws an error that a folder can not be found prior the filesystem is mounted. Thus the folder is never there. IMHO this should be interchanged to execute precommand prior expectdir. If this would have some sideeffect, maybe we could introduce a "mountcommand" that is executed prior all folder/files checks.