From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 18:11:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A57D16A4B3 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vette.gigo.com (vette.gigo.com [216.218.228.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D062943F3F for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfesler@gigo.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gigo.com [127.0.0.1]) by vette.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9A95455 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Fesler To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031011181109.J15184@vette.gigo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Firewire on STABLE: Sane for drive-based backups? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:11:56 -0000 I did not have much luck on digging through the archives. Does anyone have any sucess stories on using external firewire drives on the stable branch of freebsd? Does hot swap work? Can I mount, dd or ufsdump or newfs/rsync, then umount and unplug it cleanly? I'm considering my options for doing once-a-month backups, and tape just totally blows the budget. I'm currently using a second drive to produce snapshots, but that doens't leave me with any off-site backups without taking the system down to swap drives. -- Jason Fesler, http://gigo.com/resume.html "Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."