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From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Subject: Re: periodic(8) daily should backup bsdlabel(8) / fdisk(8) disk
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Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> i was browsing the pr-db and found this pr:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/86388
> 
> i think it would be a very nice addition to daily. i attached
> 220.backup-bsdlabels. it can also be found here:
> http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/220.backup-bsdlabels
> 
> backing up the disk labels on a daily basis sounds like a really good thing to
> do. also the pr states that netbsd and openbsd are doing this for over 10
> years now.

I second that. I posted in to this PR back in 2007, but this PR has 
still no attention of commiters. :(

It is sad that some "simple" PRs are opened for more than 3 years. It 
should be commited or refused and closed.

Miroslav Lachman