How do I autorun something upon an external drive mounting?

I do support for elementary schools and all teachers have a MacBook but limited server space for backup. I would like to set up a large external drive (raid 5 or somesuch) that upon insertion, would run a backup script and then unmount.
Is there a way to make something autorun (regardless of what computer is connected) upon firewire or usb drive insertion?
-Brandon L.

It could be automatically done a few ways from each Mac with I use FW drives on most of my Networks and use Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/index.html
It can be setup to just sit in the background until a Drive or Share mounts, Backup whatever, dismount when done.
Ideally it'd be run from the Server with the RAID attached to it.

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