Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 03:45:40 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to? Message-ID: <20081207034453.B2642@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <493B36D2.2040509@polands.org> References: <493AFD81.6020705@polands.org> <20081207000913.V1934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <493B36D2.2040509@polands.org>
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>>> that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I >>> want to >> >> assuming you do gmirror first and then gstripe of gmirror then >> use dd to read last sectors of each disk drive and each gmirror device. >> and backup disklabels >> > Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, create a gstripe of two gmirrors. > If you don't mind me asking, how would one use the dd output you described > above to restore those data? Would it include the gjournal metadata as well? i don't know how gjournal works but geom data is always at last sector of provider
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