Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:15:49 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: eras mus <erasmu@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Server Hang Message-ID: <20140109121549.52c490cc@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <CALeO_hNNtvwsDqjiReZpy-s=0Po8JD9xzv0z6W6rDddcAR=QxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALeO_hNNtvwsDqjiReZpy-s=0Po8JD9xzv0z6W6rDddcAR=QxA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:28:03 +0530 eras mus <erasmu@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > you can use many different programs like dd (makes a real copy of partition) or rsync (takes longer) or cp -avp in the root of a partition or any of the already mentioned programs. You might consider formatting the disk before on a different system. You should not use dd then. > 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. Hot swap? Pentium IV? Is this supported by your hardware? Just take the machine off-line, copy the disk and replace it by the new one. Erich
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