On Saturday 18 March 2006 13:40, Nathanel wrote:
>I would like to setup 3 external HD (USB) as backup tapes.
>
I think this can be done.  I'd setup each one with the vtapes it can 
hold, and NOT duplicate them across the drives. So that each drive of 
the 3, the first would contain vtapes Daily-001 to Daily-10, the 2nd 
vtapes Daily-0011 to Daily-020, yadda yadda.

And I'd have enough holding disk that if you forgot to unmount, swap the 
drives for the next one and remount, you wouldn't lose anything over 
the weekend.

This assumes that you have it configured to use one drive already.

I have some scripts that could be hacked up to do all this I think.  I 
published one such a couple of weeks ago here on the list, apologizing 
for the fact that its not 'purty'.  But it worked for me on one 
permanently mounted drive, which is mounted at /amandatapes here.

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