Hot swapping server drives non-RAID

[atbnet]

Before I invest a lot of time and frustration in this, I want to gauge if this is even remotely possible. I have a server with a backplane installed. I want to dump data to a regular SATA drive and then pop it out and take to another computer, my storage server, and transfer the data. This seems to be the easiest way to accomplish what I am trying to do since the server is in a colo and I want the backups to sit on my storage server at home. Doing it over the net would take forever and waste all of my bandwidth. Has anyone ever done anything similar to this?

 

[nitrobass24]

If it is purely a data drive then yes you can do that...it would be the same principal as an External Drive

Although a over the net backup would take prob a week initially...but after that it would be fairly fast because only changes get backedup.
Ive used Logmein.com and there are some others like mozy and the likes.

 

[atbnet]

Yeah I figured it should act like an external drive. I'll have to play around with it more later. I was having trouble getting Windows to recognize that I had put the hard drive in without rebooting it first which is what I am trying to avoid.

 

[Drudenhaus]

I do this all the time with my M35T enclosure. You can do the "safely remove device" process just like USB flash drives.

 

[axan]

Yeah I figured it should act like an external drive. I'll have to play around with it more later. I was having trouble getting Windows to recognize that I had put the hard drive in without rebooting it first which is what I am trying to avoid.

If windows has trouble recognizing it try going to device manager and scanning for new hardware, that usually does the trick.

 

[atbnet]

Ok now tonight is it doing just fine, go figure. Before Explorer kept crashing when I'd try to access the drive. Now I just have to wait for my second drive to arrive and it should be good to go. Thanks everyone.