Copying usb sticks

[Brenden Ward]

Hi,

We have FreeNAS 11 installed and running on a usb stick and would like to keep a separate stick available if the original one was to fail. Whats the best practice for doing this?

Thanks
Brenden

 

[danb35]

Don't. Keep a backup of your config file instead. If/when your boot device fails, do a clean install to a new device, upload your saved config, and you're set.

Alternatively, add a second USB stick as a mirror of the first--you can do that through the GUI.

Yet another alternative (and probably the best), ditch the USB sticks entirely and use a small SSD or SATA DOM instead as the boot device.

 

[Brenden Ward]

Hi,

Thank you for your message, think we'll back up the config files, any ideas where you go in the consul to do the backup of the config files?

Thanks
Brenden

 

[danb35]

Off the top of my head, I think it's system -> Advanced -> Save Config.

 

[Jailer]

http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#system-general-fig