Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is
just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple
data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a
server, and I was hoping I could just umount /dev/whichever , unlock a
drive tray, and reverse the process for a different drive. It just
sounds too easy, though.
-Jeff
MonMotha wrote:
Before you go trying this, make sure the SATA drivers in Linux support
hot swapping. Just because the hardware supports it doesn't mean the
software does (I can practically guarantee you windows will BSOD
unless you tell it in advance you're going to hotswap it's drive).
This is mostly useful on RAID arrays though. See the raidhotadd and
raidhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands.
--MonMotha
