From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 14:33:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F22D1065675 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out1.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT1.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CC38FC0A for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,283,1231110000"; d="scan'208";a="267331522" Received: from zivmaildisp1.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER03.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.85]) by zivm-relay1.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2009 15:33:36 +0100 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER03.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id 15BF81B0752; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:33:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:33:30 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=+permail-200901181433301e86ffa8000037a6-a_best01+ Subject: periodic(8) daily should backup bsdlabel(8) / fdisk(8) disk labels X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:39 -0000 This is a MIME encoded multipart message. --+permail-200901181433301e86ffa8000037a6-a_best01+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi there, i was browsing the pr-db and found this pr: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/86388 i think it would be a very nice addition to daily. i attached 220.backup-bsdlabels. it can also be found here: http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/220.backup-bsdlabels backing up the disk labels on a daily basis sounds like a really good thing to do. also the pr states that netbsd and openbsd are doing this for over 10 years now. cheers. alex --+permail-200901181433301e86ffa8000037a6-a_best01+ Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; 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