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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 
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