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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
