[PLUG] Removable Hard Disk Recommendations
Sandy Herring
sandy at herring.org
Tue Feb 20 19:56:24 UTC 2007
Circa 11:33:42 on Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Charles Sliger wrote:
> I want to build a server with at least 1 removable hard disk for use in
> backups.
>
> I've heard that there can be reliability issues with the disk carriers.
>
> Any insights welcome.
I opted to go the external USB 2.0 route and got the Seagate 160GB 7200
rpm drive. I rsync...
/home
/var/spool/mail
/etc
/var/www
/var/log/httpd
/usr/local/bin
...and the 'My Documents' folder mounted on my XP box nightly (with
rotating hard links to provide historical backups sets).
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 147G 60G 81G 43% /media/usbdisk
//sandy/docs 299G 43G 256G 15% /windocs
The drive was recognized instantly on my RHEL (soon to be CentOS)
web/mail server (IBM x206) and formatted easily as ext3. It's been a
trouble-free solution for me.
Sandy
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