Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:59:33 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup Message-ID: <200403031359.i23DxgDb003853@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200402291249.14204.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAYzSznVi3fkWJYCR3viDFqMKAAAAQAAAA30CINh4UKEm/uYMfcCdnMgEAAAAA@planet-richard.com>
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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 <Maxtor 5000DV v1.00.00 0000> 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?
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