Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:09:54 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewire on STABLE: Sane for drive-based backups? Message-ID: <200310121509.54739.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031011181109.J15184@vette.gigo.com> References: <20031011181109.J15184@vette.gigo.com>
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On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:41, Jason Fesler wrote: > I did not have much luck on digging through the archives. Does anyone have > any sucess stories on using external firewire drives on the stable branch > of freebsd? Does hot swap work? Can I mount, dd or ufsdump or > newfs/rsync, then umount and unplug it cleanly? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. > I'm considering my options for doing once-a-month backups, and tape just > totally blows the budget. I'm currently using a second drive to produce > snapshots, but that doens't leave me with any off-site backups without > taking the system down to swap drives. Firewire enclosures + hard disks are quite cost effective in my experience. I have used a Maxtor "external hard disk" and a "Mapower" one - http://www.mapower.com.tw/ - (both have the same chip in them), if I was going to swap harddisks over a lot I would probably stump up for a "Drive dock" though -> http://www.wiebetech.com/products/firewiredrivedock.html They end up looking like SCSI disks, they perform very well (eg 20-30Mb/sec at fairly low CPU usage). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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