On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 20:56, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: > On 6/8/2011 1:50 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I have decided that my pfSense PC will have two disks - ad4 and ad6 as > > they are now. > > I'd like to backup ad4 to ad6 every weekend - automated using dump. > > > > Is this the stupid way of doing it? > > > > I have a feeling that someone would tell me that, but imagine if the > > disk crashed and I wanted to be up and running without being at the > > site. I could simply tell someone to open the box and interchange the > > SATA data cables, then power back on. > > > > I did try mounting the 2nd disk but it wouldn't allow me. So I am left > > with dd as the only option to do the disk backup:) > > That depends on what your intent really is. If you are after redundancy, > setup gmirror: > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Create_a_Software_RAID1_%28gmirror%29 > > Voila, instant RAID 1. > > If you are after a periodic backup, on 2.0 /etc/rc.create_full_backup > (and its brother, rc.restore_full_backup) might be useful in addition to > the gmirror above. > > Sounds good!
Thanks for a fast one. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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