Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:24:17 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geli recovery Message-ID: <hj9riq$sgg$2@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <e0df4dc61001210717o10e3d1e4l34c31f7d3ada5c61@mail.gmail.com> References: <e0df4dc61001210516n2e22a92dwf2b8662f0e973e5@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210622u43233cacw9646cc0306a6b907@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210629r111bd679o2f2af99a01814db8@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210631q6378400alb12f74013c97b58@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210712k7bc0584m658ce091813f4585@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210717o10e3d1e4l34c31f7d3ada5c61@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/21/10 16:17, BSD Life wrote: > 2010/1/21 Alaksiej C<ac@belngo.info> > >> Generally, yes, "geli restore" would save you. Of course, BIOS >> firmware could take enough space to harm not only metadata, but some >> data also, but not much. >> >> As Ivan Voras mentioned, geli in FreeBSD8 does metadata backup >> automatically by default, so check your /var/backups/ >> > > I think it was initialized with 7.0 or stable between 7.0 and 7.1, > /var/backup is empty. Then sorry, you don't have geli backups. > And Ivan, do you mean i should reinit it? Reiniting it would of course destroy the data thoroughly.
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