Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently > connected? I'm starting on backup scripts, and I need to check which > volumes are present before I figure out what to back up to them. I > . . . In addition to what others have suggested so f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Foster
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 21:35 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently > connected? Would "rmformat -l" or "eject -l" fit the bill ? > The external USB backup disks in question have ZFS filesystems on them, > which may make a diff

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Eric Haycraft wrote: > You may want to peek here first. Tim has some scripts already and if not > exactly what you want, I am sure it could be reverse engineered. > > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people > > Thanks, but I already read those, and referred to those in my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Haycraft
You may want to peek here first. Tim has some scripts already and if not exactly what you want, I am sure it could be reverse engineered. http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people Eric This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently connected? I'm starting on backup scripts, and I need to check which volumes are present before I figure out what to back up to them. I suppose I could just try all the ones that I know about and see which are there (th