Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique
2009-11-24 13:20:48
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> I do the shutdown for two reasons:
>>
>> 1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have
>> to shut down to keep everything consistent.
>> 2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far as I have been
>> able to determine.
>>
>
> Try a 'dmesg' before and after inserting the drive. If you see the
> drive detected, you should be able to start a sync without shutting
> down. If you swap one out and in at the same time, you should have a
> third one in the offsite rotation so they aren't all in the same place
> at the same time.
>
Is there a way to avoid the shutdown even with the root partition
mounted on the raid?
Next time I do a swap, I'll bring the system back up with 2 drives and
then try to hot-add the third and watch dmesg. If I see the drive
detected, what do I need to do to get udev to create the device file
(CentOS 4)?
There are several drives in the rotation, so having two of the external
drives in hand isn't a problem.
--
Bowie
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