{"id":72,"date":"2005-10-30T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/30\/freebsd-usb-hard-disk-how-not-to\/"},"modified":"2005-10-30T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T12:59:17","slug":"freebsd-usb-hard-disk-how-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/30\/freebsd-usb-hard-disk-how-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeBSD USB Hard Disk HOW-not TO"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

\n I picked up a shiny new 160 gig drive to replace the current drive in the
\n server. The old approach to backup was something like this:\n <\/p>\n

General Steps for backing up data partition<\/h4>\n

\n (Note: not exact steps)<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Power Down Server<\/li>\n
  2. Insert new disk drive on a free IDE bus<\/li>\n
  3. Setup new hard disk to be able to used in FreeBSD
    \n
    \n bsdlabel -w ad2
    \n newfs ad2
    \n <\/em><\/p>\n
  4. Mount new hard disk to be able to copy things onto it
    \n
    \n mount \/dev\/ad2 \/mnt\/temp
    \n <\/em>\n <\/li>\n
  5. Dump data partition into new hard disk:
    \n ( dump -0f – \/home ) | ( cd \/mnt\/temp ; restore -rf – )<\/em>\n <\/li>\n
  6. Power Down Again<\/li>\n
  7. Swap hard drives<\/li>\n
  8. Power up again, Done<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, snags always came up during that process but the main problem for
    \n me is the Power Down phase. The server is just down for too long during the
    \n dump session for my tastes. These days things are much easier with mass
    \n storage devices for USB and Firewire. Just plug one of these babies in
    \n and dump away. With the faster throughput of USB2.0 or Firewire, the finger
    \n tapping has decreased somewhat. The MAJOR increase in storage capacity has
    \n helped bring back up the wait times that the throughput increase would have
    \n decreased.
    \n
    \n I took my shot at using a USB HDD enclosure on the hard drive and plugging
    \n it into FreeBSD. In the dmesg I saw a umass0 detected message but according
    \n to the docs you should also be seeing a SCSI direct access drive.\n <\/p>\n

    \n Example da<\/em> device detection (working case):
    \n
    \n umass0: [Manufacturer shows up here]
    \n da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
    \n da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
    \n da0: XX.000MB\/s transfers
    \n da0: YYYYYYMB (78125000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S\/T 4863C)
    \n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n

    \n I saw only the umass0 message. After scritching my head why I saw no
    \n da0<\/em> for awhile I realized something.
    \n
    \n Support for USB HDD enclosures is heavily device driver dependent<\/em>
    \n
    \n aka. you can’t just buy any generic USB HDD enclosure and expect it to work.
    \n I’d suggest reading the manpage for the
    \n     umass(4)<\/a>
    \n storage driver to ensure you have a compatible USB storage device. Needless
    \n to say, the HDD enclosure I have (A     DECA<\/a>
    \n SDHC-350) does not seem to be compatible with FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE at this time.\n <\/p>\n

    How I fixed it<\/h4>\n

    \n I swapped to a IEEE1394 HDD enclosure I owned and the HDD came up perfectly
    \n and was detected as da0 on my system. I then ran through the general backup
    \n steps above to backup my system.\n <\/p>\n

    \n One thing I should add to the general steps is to create a very ‘basic’
    \n FreeBSD installation on a small BSD slice on the data drive. With disk
    \n space very cheap these days using up 1gig for a partition that can bootup
    \n a minimal RELEASE or preconfigured setup is awfully handy when your system
    \n drive takes a dive.\n <\/p>\n

    References<\/h4>\n

    \n FreeBSD umass manpage<\/a>
    \n     Encrypted Filesystem on a USB Thumbdrive<\/a>
    \n     How to move FreeBSD to a new hard disk<\/a>
    \n     How can I mount this device: da0<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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