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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:31:07 -0500
From:      "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To:        "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Tape drives
Message-ID:  <009301c19a1e$1da16f60$6600000a@ach.domain>
In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGKELNDHAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Scott Gerhardt
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:25 PM
> To: Walter Betancourt; David Kelly
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: Tape drives
>
> Question:
>
> My server has U160 Hot Plug SCA drives.
>
> Is it possible to "hot plug" another drive and use it as a
> removable backup
> device.
> How do you get FreeBSD to recognize the drive without a hard reboot?
>
> To me this would be reasonable way to backup data quickly and reliably.
>
> I can buy three IBM 18GB 10k-U160 SCA drives with carriers for the same
> price of a DDS4 20/40GB DAT drive.

	I don't think that would work unless you were running all RAID 1 arrays.
And you'd have to rebuild the 18 Gig drive each time you swap it.

	Tape would be a more sane solution, even if it is more expensive.

--- Andy



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