From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 01:38:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id 762291065672; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:38:29 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: "Sam Fourman Jr." Message-ID: <20100720013829.GA7099@freebsd.org> References: <242312022.4636340.1279374040721.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb017> <4C44C19C.4080302@delphij.net> <4C44D0BA.5080705@delphij.net> <20100720003742.GA95384@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Xin Li , Michael Gusek Subject: Re: Problem with ZFS version 15 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:38:29 -0000 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:31:11PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > > how about adding a periodic script to /etc/periodic/daily to backup the information? > > > > the idea was raised a long time ago already, but was abandoned [1]. > > > > cheers. > > alex > > > > I think that is a good idea, if you have a script to do that I would test it unfortunately i don't. ;) i think however that for such a script using gpart to dump a fs's layout would be suited much better than dumping the primary and backup GPT table directly (using `dd` e.g.). cheers. alex > > > -- > > Sam Fourman Jr. > Fourman Networks > http://www.fourmannetworks.com