In another thread some time ago, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: " With a 3ware hardware RAID controller and good-quality hot-swap drive " bays; you go to the web or command line interface for the array, remove " the failed drive from the array, pull the drive, put in the new one, tell " the 3ware controller to add it back in, and rebuild the array. Done.
If a person does this with a good drive, is the removed good drive readable, as is, on a standard motherboard pata port? I'm trying to avoid having to learn 3ware CLI. Doing most of the above and removing a good drive from a mirror (for offsite backup) with 3DM2 doesn't give me a flawless copy. I don't have hot swap cages so I power down the machine to remove/replace the drive, which seems to me like it should work. The problem I have is that when I check the off-site candidate drive on a standard (not 3ware controller) port, /dev/hda say, gparted shows it as being unallocated space. I can sometimes rewrite the partition table to get the /var/lib/backuppc to show up in a completely useable way but, with my fat fingers, I'd rather not have to rely on that. R ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
