I would look to use a USB hub and something like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/buy-hard-drives-and-memory/hard-drive-enclosures-and-docks/hard-drive-docks
The slight issue you will have is with performance, as you'll be reading and
writing up and down the USB channel.
---Guy
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> On 16 Sep 2013, at 19:52, Greg Woods <greg AT gregandeva DOT net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:02 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
>>
>> My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that
>> is known to work with Bacula.
>
> It's clear from the responses I got that I left out an important detail,
> since all the responses were telling me why I should use something other
> than a USB tape drive.
>
> This is a cheap home setup. My storage server is a Raspberry Pi. So I do
> not have SATA bays, SCSI interfaces, or eSATA interfaces available. The
> only connection for peripherals is USB. My current storage device is a
> 4TB USB drive, of the "green" type that shuts itself down automatically
> when inactive. But it is still connected, because I want to be able to
> fire off an incremental backup for a laptop or desktop whenever I want,
> without having to fiddle with hardware connections.
>
> I want a secondary backup device that can be used for migration and/or
> copy jobs. For this one, I don't want the media always online, because
> of course I want to insulate myself against software going nuts, power
> surges, etc. (yes I have a UPS and those are very good but they are not
> perfect; ideally, I'd like to copy my full backups to media that I can
> store offsite).
>
> At this point, I can see three options: getting a USB tape drive, using
> a second hard drive that I manually connect and mount as needed, or
> using another machine in the house as a secondary storage server (more
> complicated to set up and maintain) so that other hardware options
> become available.
>
> --Greg
>
>
>
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