From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 13:33:07 2005 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 0E68A16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:33:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cheyenne.wixb.com (cheyenne.wixb.com [65.43.82.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9155343D49 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:33:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20050106073009.00c6d140@cheyenne.wixb.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:33:05 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.D. Bronson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI) 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: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:33:07 -0000 I finally found the reason my 5.3 machine was randomly rebooting. It is either the scsi HBA and/or the drive. Although the same exact hardware runs any other OS fine :-/ well with that in mind, I am now all IDE and USB capable. No more SCSI....so there went my tape backup solution. I need to backup only about 4-5GB at once. My DDS SCSI drive handled that fine... Does anyone know of an IDE based solution -or- a USB backup solution? This is a 1U rack server, so if I used IDE based, I would have to open the machine and jury rigg it any time I needed to backup. I have dual standard USB ports though, on the front of the server. Any ideas will be appreciated ! -JEFF