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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>
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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
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