On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:24:12 +1300 Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just bought one of these nifty hot swappable esata drive bays: > > http://icute.com.tw/english/iSwap201.htm > > I want to use it for off site backups i.e.: backup to the drive, pop it > out to take off site and replace with another drive. > > Can anyone here confirm I'm right in thinking that I'll need to buy > esata drives that are designed for RAID / Enterprise use? > > >From what I can figure out it looks like RAID drives support > hot-swapping with power on where normal internal drives do not. > > Anyone else on this list hot-swapping drives? > > I'm running Kubuntu 7.10. > > Thanks. > > > I have been using the same old standard sata drives in a cheap and cheerful caddy to perform the backups here for about 2 years now. I do mount/umount them manually before/after use, and have never had any problem with any of the disks or corruption of data thereon. In detail, I have an old celeron server dedicated for backups, with a pair of 80GB disks in soft raid. The main partition of this disk, where all of the backups are written to is written nightly to the removable disk, which is one of a set of 4 that are rotated whenever the partition becomes full, and the partition is then cleared down. Said partition is available via samba, ftp, scp, nfs to any/all who wish to use it, as well as the automated backups I do for the local servers. hth, Steve
pgplEQMpjlao3.pgp
Description: PGP signature
