Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:32:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid* Message-ID: <20050920200555.B20769@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
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All: I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont backup fdisk/disklabel output. I'm taken back a bit; NetBSD and OpenBSD have always done this (archive to /var/backup). We backup the password and group files, but not system info. Obviously, RAID can mitigate the need for this, but imagine a DRP scenario where you have to recover a host to an offsite warm/cold failover facility from off-site tape backups. You can get your vendor to provide identical hardware, but without disk parition/slice info, how are you going to recover your disks? It's bad enough we don't have a unified way to talk to RAID controllers yet...the least we can do is try. We should probably also backup gmirror/gvinum config outputs... *sigh* ~BAS
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