Adding a backup drive 1

[sarm]

Hello,

I have a redhat 7.1 server up and running and was thinking about making use of an old 15 gig hd I have laying around for a backup device. So I have a few questions.

If i just plug it in and restart server will it recognize the new drive to allow me to mount and load a linux on it?

I don't want to disturb the existing drive things are working fine on it.

Thanks

 

[ady2k]

You can plug and detect the tape drive from linux.
Make sure linux has driver for your scsi card.
You can see tape drive detected from scsi bios .After you restarted the linux .
Linux server will run kudzu for detect the tape drive.
You can check modules.conf on /etc directory.
If you can see scsi module in modules.conf file.
Your tape drive are ready for backup.

 

[optimised]

hello,

if you are adding a new master on a secondary interface it will probably named hdc. After restarting your machine to verify the added drive has been detected use the command
# ls /proc/ide

if it was detected you will see something like:
drivers hda@ hdc@ ide0/ ide1/ piix
if the new drive is a single partion simply mount as,
# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/hdc

if the added drive is partitioned you will have to create the appropriate mount point.

Then simply point your backup script to your new drive.
Adding the drive should not effect the operation of your current drive at all.

hope this helps