Change Hot Swap Disks

[jamesb25]

Hello - Can someone tell what the proper way to change hot-swap disks for rotating backups. Is there something I need to do within the symantec software, BE 2010, to "safely remove drive"?

I realize this defeats the the purpose of the term hot-swap, but we are using one CRU datport hot swap drive bay rotating 3 hard drives for our backup. I just took over for a previous admin, so I didn't set this and I'm not very familiar with BE.

The reason I ask is that I've just been pulling them out and switching them, but I;ve had 2 drives showing up as corrupt and it makes wonder if I can't just remove the drive without unmoutning it.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Jaydeep_S]

How is that device configured in BE. Ideally it sould be configured as Removable B2D if you want to use it as a cartridge. Also make sure that there are no backup/restore jobs running to this device in BE when you are swapping this.

[jamesb25]

Its configured as a regular backup-to-disk folder.

[Colin_Weaver]

How does thedrive show up in "My Computer"

Does it shows as a standrd drive (in same section as C:) or does it show as a removable drive?

[jamesb25]

Yes standard drive. Mapped to drive letter V:

[jamesb25]

Hi Colin - Does that information help you at all?