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Subject: Re: "deep" gpart backup?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:27:47 -0600
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014, at 15:53, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-geom.
> 
>  Is here any way to make "deep" "gpart backup | gpart restore"? Now, when
>  I
> have disk with MBR, with two slices, each of which has BSD label, I need
> three calls of backup / restore commands with proper arguments. It looks
> just stupid :)
> 

If gpart can see and manipulate all of these elements it really should
be able to backup and restore them all atomically.