Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:40:05 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> Subject: Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk Message-ID: <201001161040.08374.oceanare@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20100114120108.GA3815@current.Sisis.de> References: <20100111123219.GA2270@current.Sisis.de> <4B4C20D1.3060408@ose.nl> <20100114120108.GA3815@current.Sisis.de>
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Hi, just buy the hard disk of your choice and put it into the case of=20 your choice. I use only disks which come with five years warrenty. On 14 January 2010 pm 20:01:08 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:12:17AM +0100, Bas=20 Smeelen escribi=F3: > > I use Freecom hard drive XS 1.5TB USB2.0 on our fallback > > servers as back-up disks. > > Your /dev/da1s1d let me think that you have created more than > one partition... After a bad experience, I use as many slices as the machine uses I=20 take the data from. I also backup the programs. Then, I use for the external disk the same interface which I can=20 use in the machine. So, if the internal hard disk fails, will be=20 able to exchange the disks and boot. Ok, fstab might needs to be=20 edited. Erich
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