Re: [CentOS] external USB drives, strange result on reawaking

2021-09-18 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I'm sorry but I've moved away from Amanda so can't help. However one thing that your description does imply is that you keep the drives in the enclosure next to the machine. Unless you have some other mechanism for taking a remote backup, this is a bad idea. consider the aftermath of a

[CentOS] external USB drives, strange result on reawaking

2021-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
My backup system (using amanda) stores its data on external drives in a single 4 bay USB enclosure. As these drives are only needed during backup or recovery operations I have used hdparm to enable them go to an idle state after a period of inactivity. If I attempt to access any of the data