USB Boot Critical

[norskman]

I need to increase my boot USB from 4GB.
The manual tells us that 4GB is the minimum anyway.

Can I simply take a 16GB USB drive and using a utility - like Acronis - and disk copy the contents form the smaller to the larger?

Also anyone got any recommendations for faster USB drives? 16GB drives are very low cost - so I thought I may as use fast ones - to speed up the boot?

 

[hugovsky]

Don't do that. Backup your config thru GUI. Install new freenas into new USB pen, boot and restore config. That simple.

 

[norskman]

ok, thats easy.

Any recommendations for a fast USB stick?

 

[hugovsky]

Just use a good quality one. And always test it first. Use badblocks or this. 8GB+ is fine. Boot time isn't really a problem.

 

[norskman]

many thanks - very helpful.

 

[norskman]

As USB sticks are low cost - is it worth considering getting two and having them mirrored? How do you enable mirroring on the boot USB device? How do you setup the mirror?

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yes. See the section "mirroring the boot device" or something similar in the manual, it's very simple ;)