Best way to remove HD?

[Mathias Haas]

I've run this setup on FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.2.1 and it works fine so far. We
had our server stolen 1 month ago and it was easy to restore the backup
from the external harddisk (and it was fast too!).

Our previos server had some low-budget (almost no-name) firwire
controller. Now we run on the internal fw-controller on an Asus P4C800-E
Deluxe. Older versions of BSD doesn't support Firewire (I know my old
4.6.2 does not). I'm unsure from which version it became supported.

Ciao,
Mathias.

> Thursday, September 9, 2004, 1:21:40 PM, ha scritto:
>
> MH> Hello! I wonder if this is the best way to disconnect an external
> firewire
> MH> disk (Lacie) that's used as an external backup?
>
> very interesting...
>
>
> MH> First I do the backup then I run the 'sync'-command in order to write
> down
> MH> any data still in the buffer. After that I umount the disk and then I
> turn
> MH> of the power and disconnect the disk from the computer.
>
> MH> Before the backup starts I connect the drive and then I simply mount
> it.
>
> MH> Is there any better way to do it or is this safe?
>
> AFAIK this is the correct procedure.
> Unmounting the FS flushes all data to disk, so nothing should be lost.
> And for the firewire link itself, if I remember correctly it's
> "plug'n'play" so it should be safe to simply remove the plug.
>
> btw, me too I would backup my data in this way, may I ask you about
> your experiences with FreeBSD + firewire ? Are you using 4.x or 5.x ?
> Which firewire card are you using ? are you satisfied ? :)
>
> sorry for many questions ! ;)
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
>
>
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