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When I plug a HD via USB, it should a) mount it b) run my backup script.

What I currently have is backintime.service

[Unit]
Description="Runs backintime to backup."

[Service]
User=user
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-inhibit --what=sleep --why="Backup" "backintime -b"

To start the backup script and backup.mount

[Unit]
Description=Backup Disk
Before=backintime.service

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/931129c7-7f15-4042-9a69-796c9eb8ffc9
Where=/media/backup

But how do I execute it automatically?

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I'm struggling to implement a very similar system. I got it to work, but I still want to tweak this and that (see this more general question: systemd - umount device after service which depends on it finishes).

Here's a working solution to your problem:

backup.service

[Unit]
Description=<DESCRIPTION HERE>
BindsTo=<STORAGE DEVICE UNIT HERE>.device mnt-backup.mount
After=<STORAGE DEVICE UNIT HERE>.device mnt-backup.mount

[Service]
ExecStart=<CALL TO BACKUP SCRIPT HERE>

Note: to get a list of the storage device units use systemctl list-units --all --full | grep disk

You might want to add RefuseManualStart=yes under [Unit] too.

mnt-backup.mount

[Unit]
DefaultDependencies=no
Conflicts=umount.target
Before=umount.target

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<DEVICE UUID HERE> 
Where=/mnt/backup
Type=<FILESYSTEM HERE>

You pretty much got here, now to automaticaly start backup.service, we will be using a udev rule.

Here also you might want to add RefuseManualStart=yes under [Unit].

90-backup.rules

KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="<HD SERIAL HERE>", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="backup.service"

Note: to get a list of the attributes of your specific device, include its serial number, use udevadm info -a -n /dev/sd*

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