Tony T
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I have two Dell 2950 servers with Quad Core Xeon processors, 16 Gig RAM and 4 2TB SAS drives runnig on a PERC6IR with all the RAID feature turned off as per the FreeNAS documentation. Each server boots from a 16Gig USB drive. I'm running FreeNAS 9.3.
One of the servers is my active NAS and the other is a backup NAS for the first server. I have a Snapshot and Replication task that runs every night and seems to work perfectly.
My question is this.... In the event of a major disaster where a complete machine fails (not very likely but possible), how do you restore the Active machine after the repair or replacement of the machine? This seems like a simple question but I've spent three nine hour days searching this site and Google for an answer. It may be that I'm a simpleton and the answer is so obvious that it doesn't warrant a reply but I need the peace of mind that I can recover it need be.
I have a backup for the USB drive and all my configuration so setting up a new machine is pretty straight forward. Moving the data back may not be as hard as I'm making it in my pea brain. It may be as simple as setting up a replication task from the backup to the Active NAS but I don't know.
Can someone give me a explanation of the restore steps with enough detail to walk an idiot through it.
Thanks a bunch for your help.
Tony T
One of the servers is my active NAS and the other is a backup NAS for the first server. I have a Snapshot and Replication task that runs every night and seems to work perfectly.
My question is this.... In the event of a major disaster where a complete machine fails (not very likely but possible), how do you restore the Active machine after the repair or replacement of the machine? This seems like a simple question but I've spent three nine hour days searching this site and Google for an answer. It may be that I'm a simpleton and the answer is so obvious that it doesn't warrant a reply but I need the peace of mind that I can recover it need be.
I have a backup for the USB drive and all my configuration so setting up a new machine is pretty straight forward. Moving the data back may not be as hard as I'm making it in my pea brain. It may be as simple as setting up a replication task from the backup to the Active NAS but I don't know.
Can someone give me a explanation of the restore steps with enough detail to walk an idiot through it.
Thanks a bunch for your help.
Tony T