Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:22:53 +0000 From: James Griffin <jmzgriffin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server hang Message-ID: <52CD5F3D.1000807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALeO_hOXAsuB5DS2ZqBWo44637SxOtgh6yg6CzZ7G8y6XrTPZA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALeO_hPMR9uozBBGU0DYxRfL%2BV-YucPKiin70BRhga4r49feig@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2Bg%2BBvj_E82bKGsqh86AZU=r7gMMCT1sA-bd6aALRo5W%2BhTgXQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140107115506.e54e6dfd.freebsd@edvax.de> <CALeO_hPe3Ph-5sfp=%2BmSZx2_82YWB_ED2mABNoVwNctXBaxdPw@mail.gmail.com> <CALeO_hOXAsuB5DS2ZqBWo44637SxOtgh6yg6CzZ7G8y6XrTPZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/08/2014 12:43, eras mus wrote: > Dear List, > > As per your advice after so many attempts of fsck on the partition, fsck is > waiting infinitely for /usr partition /dev/ad4s1e. So I given up fsck. > > As someone adviced in the list, I disabled ACPI in setup and when BSD > booted I've chosen the second boot option ACPI disabled.To my surprise > machine came back to normal mode. > > With all your help, the website started and is running fine now. I would > like to take a mirror or exact backup full copy of the Hard Disk (which I > don't belive. It is a 80 GB very old Hard Disk). A desktop PC is used as a > server. So I would like to make the mirror copy of this unstable Hard Disk > to another hard disk. So that in case this hard disk fails I can replace > the Backup hard disk so that the server will be up in no time. > > Is it possible to take such a mirror copy of such a hard disk so that i > can replace it as a hot swap. I request all of your expertise. How to do > hot swap?please shed some light on it. > Use dump and restore programs to copy your hard disk and restore to new one. I find they are the best tools to use.
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