From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 05:59:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2BF16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E76B943D2F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i23DxgDb003853 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:59:42 +0200 Message-Id: <200403031359.i23DxgDb003853@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 3 Mar 04 15:59:43 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 3 Mar 04 15:59:41 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:59:33 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal References: In-reply-to: <200402291249.14204.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:59:45 -0000 Hi! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: > > We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by > > plugging a USB external drive in and then doing > > cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 > > > > This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). To which anubis answered: > Why not use removeable drive trays with straight pata drives? Few months ago I did some research on this and found that not every removable IDE drive bay supports hot-swapping - the ones that do are somewhat more expensive. I myself ended up using external FireWire drives, which have worked out quite well (and the speed is much better than USB with FreeBSD 4.9): # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass1) -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you leave me, can i come too?