Hi, I have a server running current version of freebsd 11.2
I have bought 8 10 tb hard drives and had one 920 gb drive.
the 920 gb drive is an old one that I installed when I built my first server.
I now want to set the system up as a raid. so for every 2 each 2 drives will mirror each other.
so here's where I am at. I was told to back up original hard drive on an eternal hard drive via usb. I did this..
i used dump.
Now the issue here is I never did a restore in my life and I always assumed I did the dumps correctly because i followed someone instructions and it never wiped out my hard drive.
never really checked if the dumps were good or not.
So, right now was told to do a backup of original hard drive to usb external drive which I did.
I now have original hard drive connected to server and one new drive connected to server.
so da0 is original drive, da1 is new hard drive and da2 is external hard drive with backup images.
I backed up mbr and the partition.
Now I want to do a restore.
However, I don't want to restore to the original drive which is da0. I want to do a restore on da1 device.
i see tutorials and instructions online to do restore but it looks like when using restore it's going to overwrite files that are in the original or main drive which in my case da0.
I don't want to do a restore on the original device which is da0. Instead I want to restore from the dump images which is on da2 which is the external hard drive that uses ntfs file system.
what is the best way to do this? I don't want to overwrite anything on main hard drive da0.
right now trying to practice using restore on my new hard drive that is blank. so I need to know if I can use restore or something else where I can take dump files and restore or transfer all files from the image to a hard drive and make the hard drive bootable.
the 2nd thing is what is the best way to setup a raid system? I have 8 hard drives that are 10 tb all new. I can use 8 only in my server and plan to replace the original hard drive with this new ones. I just don't want to lose any data. the data on original drive is valuable. it has about 11 years of work on it.
I have bought 8 10 tb hard drives and had one 920 gb drive.
the 920 gb drive is an old one that I installed when I built my first server.
I now want to set the system up as a raid. so for every 2 each 2 drives will mirror each other.
so here's where I am at. I was told to back up original hard drive on an eternal hard drive via usb. I did this..
i used dump.
Now the issue here is I never did a restore in my life and I always assumed I did the dumps correctly because i followed someone instructions and it never wiped out my hard drive.
never really checked if the dumps were good or not.
So, right now was told to do a backup of original hard drive to usb external drive which I did.
I now have original hard drive connected to server and one new drive connected to server.
so da0 is original drive, da1 is new hard drive and da2 is external hard drive with backup images.
I backed up mbr and the partition.
Now I want to do a restore.
However, I don't want to restore to the original drive which is da0. I want to do a restore on da1 device.
i see tutorials and instructions online to do restore but it looks like when using restore it's going to overwrite files that are in the original or main drive which in my case da0.
I don't want to do a restore on the original device which is da0. Instead I want to restore from the dump images which is on da2 which is the external hard drive that uses ntfs file system.
what is the best way to do this? I don't want to overwrite anything on main hard drive da0.
right now trying to practice using restore on my new hard drive that is blank. so I need to know if I can use restore or something else where I can take dump files and restore or transfer all files from the image to a hard drive and make the hard drive bootable.
the 2nd thing is what is the best way to setup a raid system? I have 8 hard drives that are 10 tb all new. I can use 8 only in my server and plan to replace the original hard drive with this new ones. I just don't want to lose any data. the data on original drive is valuable. it has about 11 years of work on it.