Les Mikesell wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> I do the shutdown for two reasons: >> >> 1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have >> to shut down to keep everything consistent. >> 2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far as I have been >> able to determine. >> > > Try a 'dmesg' before and after inserting the drive. If you see the > drive detected, you should be able to start a sync without shutting > down. If you swap one out and in at the same time, you should have a > third one in the offsite rotation so they aren't all in the same place > at the same time. >
Is there a way to avoid the shutdown even with the root partition mounted on the raid? Next time I do a swap, I'll bring the system back up with 2 drives and then try to hot-add the third and watch dmesg. If I see the drive detected, what do I need to do to get udev to create the device file (CentOS 4)? There are several drives in the rotation, so having two of the external drives in hand isn't a problem. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
