Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:17:00 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1042665421.6c9234@mired.org> To: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive Message-ID: <15903.14412.891969.819777@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net> References: <20030110002127.GA19809@poecilotheria.netmails.net> <q9znq9g1zn.nq9@localhost.localdomain> <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net>
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In <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net>, Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> typed: > Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?) > (At least for future installations?) I run vinum (mirrored across > two disks) on other machines (which I installed recently), but this > machine was installed way before I figured out vinum. # fdisk /dev/ad0 > partition # disklabel -r /dev/ad0s1 >> partition Then "lpr partition" and store a copy with the offsite backups. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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