RAM Disk not backing up data to disk
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Hi all, long time no post
I have installed pfsense onto a usb stick (NOT USING NanoBSD) and have installed squid and squidguard.
I have ticked Use RAM Disks in System: Advanced: Miscellaneous and set the size for both tmp and var. I have also set Periodic RRD Backup to 1 hour as well as Periodic DHCP Leases Backup to 1 hour.The problem is if I restart (being longer than 1 hour) the data in the var and tmp is not saved. I lose the squidguard blacklist which causing it to not start and pfsense gets stuck pulling 100% CPU power until I reinstall the backlist. I also lose all the cache.
It seems that RAM Disks is not writing to the disk.
anyway to fix this?
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Still have this problem, anyone have any ideas?
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Is your system capable of a full install?
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Yes I have the full install of pfsense working off the usb just when I reboot the cache files and squidguard blocklist files in /tmp (ufs in RAM) and /var (ufs in RAM) are cleared and I have to redownload the blocklist.
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Only the RRD data and DHCP leases files are backed up. On nano, the /cf partition is only 50 MB, so not a ton of room to be backing up a slew of things. If you won't overrun the available space there, you could hack in whatever you want in /etc/rc.shutdown or the RRD backup file it calls there.
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Hi cmb I am not running the nano version I have a full install on the USB stick (16 GB)
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I'd probably drop the thumbdrive before it drops you (-;
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Lol, yeah I know but it will have to do for now. I have a apu1d4 in a case1d2bluu enclosure so still trying to figure out how to get an ssd in there.
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Cool - Then be sure to use an install that is designed to not make frequent writes to the drive.
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How about a mSATA drive or a DOM (disk on module)?
Should be much better for your purposes.
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That is why I am using the RAM Disk… however it is not writing (That being the cache and the squidguard blacklist) to the disk even though I set the Frequency.
I was thinking of a mSATA disk
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Get yourself an Intel 30GB mSATA or similar and run full install with squid and no worries about the drive writes.
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Yeah, I think I might do that