> I have pfsense up and running. its awesome. > I have found that the backup/restore program is very well > done and works 100% perfect. > > My issue is the hard drive itself. If it fails... > The machine has 2 identical make/model drives and I was wondering if I > could do something like this: > > dd if=/dev/ad0s1c of=/dev/ad2s1c bs=8192k conv=noerror,sync > > and then at some point, if the main drive failed, simply plug > in the 2nd drive and reboot. Any up-to-date changes could be > fixed by then restoring the 'backup'. > > > Otherwise, if that idea doesnt work what about this: > > -fdisk -aiu on ad2 (to match ad0 setup) > -bsdlabel -w ad2s1 > -bsdlabel -Ae ad2s1 (to match ad0s1 setup) > -newfs each slice > > ..then I would have to mount and dump|restore, but not sure how > that might work and if the machine would be bootable aftwards. > > > Thoughts? - am I on to the right way of thinking here? > > > -- > J.D. Bronson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > -- > Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke > inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. > >
Try the gmirror option when doing the install.( it is like the name says a software raid1 solution) You can install both drives, if one fails, the other keeps working. Now you have the time to schedule a replacement. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
