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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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