From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 9 04:16:23 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 A1CCD3B5 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 04:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A6881534 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 04:16:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=Htc+Q7h5jSCM9Lb+EH0I9v7VAPyIidbjiBCAnmeZ7UI=; b=U3SWxDCKHaOHxAqF4RrW43X5HtQiA/0UDUW+fTPMZFvMPy5S29aB9tlLL5U6qrwfo24gn6g1h8PvGtM3Fg/pGTI9O9lMyDIRh4rB0drZ3m/bAhbhzRCpWOq6Q/vQM4nwq5m2tkdVJf9SqHnynzc080RwJ1wsl1uUYqzG194cGPk=; Received: from [120.180.144.196] (port=32066 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1W172W-000pvP-Jd; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:16:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:15:49 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: eras mus Subject: Re: Server Hang Message-ID: <20140109121549.52c490cc@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.19; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:16:23 -0000 Hi, On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:28:03 +0530 eras mus 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