I will be installing a Database System on an Offshore Oil Platform (rack Servers). They have very limited hardware and space therefore sending up a backup infrastructure is not possible. Sending backups via FTP too is not possible as they do not even have a file server.
I was thinking of backing up the SQL database on to a Portable USD Hard Drives.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. My hard drives usually comes as: sda, with 'sudo blkid' and if I plug-in any USB drive, they comes as: sdb, sdc etc; after sda. That's fine!!!
But problem arises after I restart my laptop with connecting those USB drives. They alter and comes first and hard drive goes to the end, like: 'sudo blkid' shows, sda, sdb for USB drives and sdc for hard drives.
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I am planning to build a simple home server using spare SATA drives. This server will be put away some where, where it will be dark and cold, and the only connection is made by SSH and via command line.
One thing that worries me is that my drives is getting old, aprox. 5 years in operation, and I don't want to get at visit from an hard drive angel while the drives are in operation.
I recently had a vendor hot-swap a faulty hard drive on my system. The fault was determined before there were any noticeable errors with regular operation on the user end. The vendor claims to have replaced the faulty hard drive. Is there a way to verify that the hard drive has been replaced? I checked prtdiag and did not immediately see any dates or times associated with the hard drives.
I'm hoping this is an easy yes answer, but I wanted to make sure before I start.
I currently have a computer built with two internal hard drives, it's running ubuntu 11.10.
I am a novice user who upgraded to 11.10. In my previous version of Ubuntu, icons of my external drives(2) were visible and I could mount and navigate these drives. I cannot locate my external hard drives with 11.10. I have searched the questions with similar titles and have not found a solution.
The command: sudo fdisk -l does list both external hard drives.
Well I just wanna find my files located on my second and third hard drive with ubuntu dash or synapse, because when I make a search with the both of it just show me results of the main hard drive and the most of my files are in the other drives.
Note: the others hard drives are ext4 too and mounted on /media/driveX
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Is there a way to distinguish between the Internal Hard drives and External Hard drives.
Actually i need to see how many External hardrives do we have and to which server are they connected .
This is the Screenshot i took and by judging by its name SDE is external hard drive. But im not sure .
I have a couple of servers (HP ProLiant DL380, DL360 and DL120), which are all set up with hot spares, as well as a couple of regular workstations with some external disks.
I want to create preventive maintenance routines for these systems, and was wondering which maintenance would be advisable.
For the servers with the hot spares, is it sufficient to replace the hard drive upon failure?
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