From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 7:42: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C281837B73A for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA15229; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:48:46 +0100 Message-ID: <3AB234AA.D9215BB6@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:43:38 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SF Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Hot swap mount compatible with FreeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG SF schrieb: > > I'm looking for a way to install a hot-swap tray in my FreeBSD 4.0 box that > would allow me to hot swap a(n) ATAPI/E-IDE or SCSI hard drive. These > drives will simply hold a directory that will be used for backup purposes, > not anything with sys, daemon or user files. I would like to set up a > backup system that dumps all data from a given number of machines onto that > hard drive that I can then swap out at given intervals of time - and not > have to take down the backup sys every time I need to swap out the drive. > Does anyone know of any hot swap interfaces that have been a workable > solution for a FreeBSD box? (Suggestions or comments are welcome...) I don't understand the question. About every swap solution will work for you. It's up to you to make sure the drive is not mounted the moment you swap drives. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message