Back up of mac pro?

What external equipment can be used to back up mac pro. Like a case that has hot swappable hard drives or ssds. Powered by Thunderbolt.
Curt Ewing

For the next Mac Pro? or current?
OS X is fussy about ejecting a drive safely first but Firewire, USB (2 and 3) as well as some eSATA (depends on the host controller).
Most don't hot swap SSDs.
There are drive docking stations for USB2/3 and eSATA.
Watch out for drives with their own bus powered.
And seeing how you want Thunderbolt, my guess is you don't have a Mac Pro but rather a MacBook Pro.

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l_elephant wrote:
I notice that the flasher is connected to a card with ROM revision 3011, the later one.
I noticed this too.
now, to the slot profiles.
you say;
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| DVI DVI ---->> slot 3
| DVI DVI ---->> slot 2
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i ask because i'm wondering if your reproducing the way the expansion slot utility is graphically portraying it. I'm pretty sure the utility is showing the slots as if the mac is upright and the person is looking into the side of it with the access panel off.
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exchange the connections on the second and third cards, leaving the first and fourth cards be.
Okay, will do.
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Oh, and another question, does it always, always flash when you boot-up?
Do you guys shut down the system every night?
We rarely reboot it, and I'm not the only one that would see it reboot. This system is in a 24x7 Network Operations Center. I just know that rebooting takes a while for the monitor to come up all of the way.
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