Glossary infra Term Page

Cold standby

spare hardware kept powered off until a failure occurs

cold-standby #infra#opnsense

Related Concepts

Configuration backup Snapshot RTO/RPO HA pair

Core Idea

Cold standby is spare hardware kept powered off until a failure occurs. Add the standby boot time (5–10 minutes) to your RTO. It usually makes the most sense alongside Configuration backup, Snapshot, RTO/RPO.

Why It Matters Here

Mathbong reuses this term across opnsense posts as shared vocabulary.

Posts Mentioning This Concept

[OPNsense Series Part 6] Backups, Updates, Recovery, and When to Move to Dedicated Hardware Plan backups, updates, and recovery flows for OPNsense on Proxmox, then decide when a separate firewall appliance is worth the effort.[OPNsense 시리즈 6편] 백업·업데이트·복구 전략과 전용 하드웨어로 옮겨야 할 때 OPNsense와 Proxmox 조합에서 설정 백업, 업데이트, 복구 흐름을 점검하고 언제 별도의 방화벽 장비가 필요한지 판단하는 기준을 정리합니다.