I have a small server for some home automation and admin stuff which are running in different iocage jails.
I now would like to create a cold standby device that I will boot once a week with a usb stick. Then it should replicate the entire zfs disk from my online system to the disk so that if I boot the backup system it will directly boot into that last replicates state.
I know that I will have to to additional backup of data between the weekly updates but this would eliminate major reinstallation work when something bad is happening. The device we are talking about is an old low powered netstation without a second hard drive that I could use in a zfs mirror.
Any body out there that has already done something like this and can share some real live experience? (Please no answer that this is a stupid idea or plain links to the freebsd man page)
Any experience with some sort of cold standby would be appreciated
Regards
Hagen
I now would like to create a cold standby device that I will boot once a week with a usb stick. Then it should replicate the entire zfs disk from my online system to the disk so that if I boot the backup system it will directly boot into that last replicates state.
I know that I will have to to additional backup of data between the weekly updates but this would eliminate major reinstallation work when something bad is happening. The device we are talking about is an old low powered netstation without a second hard drive that I could use in a zfs mirror.
Any body out there that has already done something like this and can share some real live experience? (Please no answer that this is a stupid idea or plain links to the freebsd man page)
Any experience with some sort of cold standby would be appreciated
Regards
Hagen
