Re: forcing device to USB HDD

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--On Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:16 PM -0400 "Michael D. Kralka" <michael.kralka@xxxxxxx> wrote:

You can always set up a udev rule that will give the drive a known alias
(e.g. "backup_drive") based on some fixed information that is stored in
sysfs (such as vendor or model). Your scripts can then use the alias
instead of the real drive name.

This article is a little out of date, but might be useful:

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/

Here's a howto for using labeled USB drives as "tape drives" with the Bacula backup system:

<http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=47704&group_id=50727>


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