Re: How do you access different devices on an SD?

Phil Stracchino <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:49:36 -0400

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On 3/10/26 18:49, Rob Gerber wrote:
> I think anders intends to use a usb drive as if it were a tape, and use 
> it to carry his full backup offsite.
> 
> I believe I saw a project somewhere to use multiple hard drives as 
> tapes. Some sort of autochanger idea, but applied to hard drives.


I have an external chassis on my storage server in which I mount four 
alternate ZFS zpools of removable drives in rotation, stored offline 
when not in use.  That seems to be working fine.


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