bit of a mess up

[hargi]

have a linux machine running suse that i was trying to use as backup machine
i was running a script on there

#/bin/sh
mkdir - p /backups/
cd /backups/
scp -r 10.0.6.22:/temp/backups

the script work fine and just bulls across the data.
thing is the data been pulled across is not to big for the hd on the box. how would i go about connecting an external hd and then modifying the script?

TIA

 

[hargi]

yeah sorry typo's in there and running as root. The box should be running all time and located in the office just for this job.
Cheers .walls, i realise the first line is redundent so i ll get rid of that. Can you explane this

plug in usb drive
Code:

$ dmesg | tail | grep /dev/

will tell you the device node for the external disk
Code:

# mount /$DEVICE /backups

- where $DEVICE is the /dev/XXXX bit from the previous command - will mount the drive (if the external drive is ntfs, that will mount read-only - if it's ntfs, then use
Code:

# mount /dev/$DEVICE /backups -t ntfs-3g

and off you go.

is the external hd now becoming the backup directory or is it located with in there?

TIA