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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?
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> periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the 
> gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up.
>
> If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a "one-time" backup such 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