At 06:20 PM 11/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: >For less than $8 one can buy a mount that permits easy insertion >and removal of a hard drive. The hard drive is mounted in a carrier >that plugs into the mount. Shut down the box, pull out one, put in >another. So a second drive so mounted could be used to backup, >then removed and used in another machine, with the backup >software writing a compressed file to the removable disk. I got a >few of the little devices and plan to play with them when I have a >spare hard drive.
Yes, I work with a guy that loves doing this. He buys these hot-swappable units and then just puts in a new one each day. (Another common solution that many here will probably use is to break a mirrored array so that they get a free and fast backup.) I don't think that is a bad deal. However, I like the drop test. If I can't drop it without it breaking then I don't want to use it for backups. I use that measure because, assuming I will swap out a drive/tape once a day--365 times a year--at some point I am going to fumble the ball. That is just my opinion though. Using multiple hard-drives that can be swapped out does work for a lot of people! --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
