Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:20 +1000 From: Peter Hoskin <peterh@criten.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: disklabel backups Message-ID: <44431220.2000902@criten.org>
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Hi, Just a thought... Twice I've needed a backup of disklabel... the first instance was user error, and the second was due to a failing hard drive that needed information to be retrieved from it. Both times after getting the disklabel set correctly, I was able to remount the filesystems and use them as normal. However getting the details right was difficult. I now backup disklabel in my backup procedures. However, I understand OpenBSDs /etc/periodic does a backup of disklabel to the filesystem. A feature like this would be great on FreeBSD, as in the event of a future failure I could retrieve the disklabel from backups. Not sure if this is the right mailing list to send this to, so let me know if it isn't. Regards, Peter Hoskin
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