From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 8 14:22:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3F1C28D for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x230.google.com (mail-we0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6660F1E5F for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id p61so1468886wes.21 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:22:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Irzm06i6AiHAtOxfuQgvtJ7fl3/aBl0dfMWRHXITDyE=; b=oMOxKX1airJIHh+dokA0XpbpgwD1PpPQbyCQECqjHnWmhYgzmiTXJaPWvr67soUwon YS0eCbCcTnzIoPoTCys6ecFgRWKPFT8BeO1hSpcdSwv7OaFIrl1XuO1RL9jsP73avo6g b4hJHOKRs42FyNP1wTSDwfFODIa/qjX7KHFZfR/qzhQCLl7p2tzo5bGMNKhq5WaaWbCZ qOdU6WtryS449O+7E/S9v46gRBEX4e0qzTiD6TcZE/aTEZriZkfX7PV7i6ntV1bdTMa7 yBmERc05sW//lpqVCxBJYQo5MpRcKmufwYtfq4QLljUcK1T7vM9z3llXgsKAx5jc3T3t v2bQ== X-Received: by 10.194.109.68 with SMTP id hq4mr78831900wjb.12.1389190975830; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (kontrol.kode5.net. [80.229.5.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kr10sm48242658wjc.22.2014.01.08.06.22.54 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:22:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52CD5F3D.1000807@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:22:53 +0000 From: James Griffin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server hang References: <20140107115506.e54e6dfd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:22:57 -0000 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.