Hi i'm very new to FreeNAS. I am using Freenas v11.3-U2.1 on a Dell Optiplex 980 as a home NAS to act as a backup for my large QNAP NAS. Anyone know how i would go about doing a full backup of the OS (not the data i'm backing up to freenas, but the OS level data) that i could keep to boot from and restore my system incase my install gets corrupted?
I have been looking for what utilities to use and the steps to use them to create an exact replica of my FreeNas system incase i need to restore to new hardware.
I have the "data" backed up already by other means, but i would like to know if there is a way to create an image of the current system that could be restored in the event of a disaster.
Disk space is not a concern, i have terabytes of disk space.
I live in an areas where we have fairly frequent violent lightning storms and our electricity goes out. I do have UPS power backups. but want to make sure if something bad happens i can restore to new hardware very quickly without having to re-install FreeNAS again (the install was painnnnnnfulll for me).
In windows this is very, very easy. In Linux Ubuntu this is very, very easy. seems to be very limited info on how to do this for FreeNAS.
I have been looking for what utilities to use and the steps to use them to create an exact replica of my FreeNas system incase i need to restore to new hardware.
I have the "data" backed up already by other means, but i would like to know if there is a way to create an image of the current system that could be restored in the event of a disaster.
Disk space is not a concern, i have terabytes of disk space.
I live in an areas where we have fairly frequent violent lightning storms and our electricity goes out. I do have UPS power backups. but want to make sure if something bad happens i can restore to new hardware very quickly without having to re-install FreeNAS again (the install was painnnnnnfulll for me).
In windows this is very, very easy. In Linux Ubuntu this is very, very easy. seems to be very limited info on how to do this for FreeNAS.