SOHO Backups?

[Ed Lawson]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:34:15 -0500
Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:


> I use (3) 300GB IDE hard drives, mounted into IDE 'hotswap'
sleds which 
> slide into a firewire case.
> 
> Backup procedure:
> 1) umount the current disk (disk a)
> 2) turn it off
> 3) swap sleds (disk a comes out, disk b goes in)
> 4) turn it on


Just to clarify, when you say turn it off, you mean simply
turning off the hotswap drive tray before you take it out and
plugging the next one in and then turning the drive on.  Right?

There is a little shop in Manchester that sells hot swap IDE
drive holders and trays for very little.  They are plastic, but
have worked fine here and will work with 133 ATA drives.  Each
additional tray is around $9. 


Ed Lawson