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Re: backing up to external hard drive
2005-01-10 04:03:58
Sigfried and Roy wrote:
i've been successfully backing up our data to a hard drive for over a
year but i need to upgrade the harddrive to a large size and was
thinking i might purchase a couple of external firwire drives, my
thinking being i could copy the config and logs over to the hard drives
and then keep one of them off site for security.
im just wondering if anyone has a setup similar, or any suggestions
warnings, before i go ahead.
I've been doing this for approximately a year now and it works great. I
have two Maxtor 5000DV FireWire drives, each holding 5 vtapes.
The only thing I had to do was invent a script for mounting the /backup
partition from correct external drive, because if I plug in the first
drive to my FreeBSD server it is recognized as /dev/da0 and if I then
remove it and plug in the second drive it is recognized as /dev/da1. If
the system tries to mount the /backup partition from the drive that is
no longer present, then I'm screwed. The entire process just hangs
indefinitely. Fortunately my script seems to do a good job in avoiding this.
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