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From: Peter Hoskin <peterh@criten.org>
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Subject: disklabel backups
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Hi,

Just a thought...

Twice I've needed a backup of disklabel... the first instance was user 
error, and the second was due to a failing hard drive that needed 
information to be retrieved from it. Both times after getting the 
disklabel set correctly, I was able to remount the filesystems and use 
them as normal. However getting the details right was difficult.

I now backup disklabel in my backup procedures.

However, I understand OpenBSDs /etc/periodic does a backup of disklabel 
to the filesystem. A feature like this would be great on FreeBSD, as in 
the event of a future failure I could retrieve the disklabel from backups.

Not sure if this is the right mailing list to send this to, so let me 
know if it isn't.

Regards,
Peter Hoskin