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Old 16th May 2008
Bruco Bruco is offline
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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Alright, I did as described and everything appears to work! In fact, the only issue I have is that the script I wrote to rsync my data first mounts the USB drive:

# mount -t msdosfs -o large /dev/da1s1 /usbbackup

before running rsync.

But of course, that USB drive might be da0 (if I boot with it plugged in) or it might be da1 (if I plug it in after the box is up). So I need to modify my script. I figure I'll just:

# ls /dev | grep da1s1a

If da1s1a exists I know that da1 is my RAID 5 drive. If it doesn't, that's my USB drive. My script can proceed from there. (That's probably not very sophisticated, but hey, I've been learning scripting even less time than FreeBSD!)

Thanks again!
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