On 8/30/25 07:45, mick.crane wrote:
Hi,
I've numerous PCs, old but seem quick enough for me.
pfsense one ~120Gb disk
Bookworm PC one ~200Gb disk doing Webmail with apache also offering
links to documents and that.
Bookworm PC one ~200Gb disk and a 3Tb disk mounted in fstab that I work on.
Bookworm PC one ~200Gb disk and a 3Tb disk mounted in fstab that I mount
with sshfs and move with thunar stuff that I want a backup of from PC I
work on.
Some stuff I want to keep I've also put on drives and kept in a drawer,
some on DVDs, some I put on the space I get with my webhosting.
I've got an old Synology NAS with 2 3Tb disks I haven't used for a bit
as it seems slow.
I think I've got copies of stuff I want to keep but wonder which is best
way to have copies of the actual OSs. That I can copy back to a disk and
have it boot if the OS disk breaks.
Answers already received are appreciated.
System administration and disaster preparedness/ recovery are easier if
the root partition contains as little data as possible and if data is
stored elsewhere -- RAID, drives, partitions, volumes, etc..
I put each OS instance on its own 2.5" SATA SSD. I also install drive
racks in the cases to make it easy to move the OS disks around.
A good USB 3.0 flash drive can work as an OS disk for headless servers,
such as your pfsense, webmail/ apache, and sshfs backup PC's. When used
interactively, the responsiveness can be choppy.
Without knowing the details of your Synology NAS, it is hard to make
suggestions.
David
