How do I safely eject an external USB drive?

[Robert_Anderson]

@scotrod

Hey there. I plan to use external USB drive to backup my pool to. My question is, how do I safely disconnect the USB drive after I’m finished? I plan to:

1. Replicate the pool
2. Use the WEB UI to export/disconnect the new pool (which sits on a single USB drive)
3. ???
4. Unplug the drive

Do I need to do anything after disconnecting the replicated pool? I know that hard drives don’t take unexpected loss of power slightly, so I don’t want to risk losing equipment.

Replicate the pool and export the new pool via the WEB UI.

After that, go to the WEB UI, select the drive, and safely “unmount” or “eject” it.

Once it’s unmounted, you can physically disconnect the USB drive.

Thats the proper way to do it.