Automatic Backup when Drive Plugged In

[Chris Tyler]

I was browsing the website of a computer supplier and saw an ad for an
HP "Simple Save" external disk drive, which automatically initiates a
hard disk backup (on Windows) when the disk is plugged into a USB port.

Later this year I'll be sending my daughter to University with a
Fedora-loaded laptop (she grew up on Linux :-) and have been thinking
about backup options for her -- and this sounded like a cool approach.
Instead of the unsafe autorun-file technique, though, I picture an app
that would check the UUID on disks (or the maybe the FS volume name) as
they are plugged in, and when a UUID is recognized, backup would
automagically commence.

But before I go off and write such a tool ... anyone know of an existing
apps that does this? (yum search doesn't seem to be finding any likely
candidates).

-Chris