The question involves external ext3 formatted drives. I’m using redhat enterprise 4 and am using ext3 formatted external drives to backup to. The linux system auto mounts the drives in /media as usbdisk or usbdisk1 etc.

My question revolves around a problem, once a week or so we run into an i/o error or a problem with one of the drives showing up. We have 3-9gig we’re backing up daily and I’m using cron and tar to compress and mv the files to the external drives. It’s when we switch drives that we sometimes run into problems…

any thoughts?

I was thinking about keeping 1 external drive always connected and connecting the off site backup drives to the first external drive…but I guess we would still run into problems sometimes?

I felt so smart setting up all the drives as ext3, I don’t feel so smart now

thanks for your time