From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 15:17:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F913106566C for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd4life@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f214.google.com (mail-bw0-f214.google.com [209.85.218.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38318FC16 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so88019bwz.31 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:17:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=pK00hmlhFG5j68Iw7R5zpY/GCfZtg/ioMAGtVS26AFo=; b=sPJB8NKvkDpePpX/OCcQnBoVzoS6W1Dlzhspb2E+1EKOUB3RHhRRyOULpc6pWVE1CQ 7/GNkZSW37gWLRsOD7dSDI8QovmdmKUKIhTqaTnFkGDyobN6RMjKrb0O2uhipkfiZH3f SOb9Q6qGeSCf3VmdzI/gu42g8DRRj+PQ9Y4GQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=G0to4HrdRMNrk8LLnf0ipSFxUjbZD2VSc05FUaI9fW/CLN688VYkwCWbsu8LFN6mco xwZ6BwPy2uzADfGnpZX+2VGLjoJPsen3DwE9Qd1eSE8qd7QYwdBe/JINgyC4bQRsPs/Z pebLKNXmYUbRUb706jIqyIDCQxqIPn+xPbDUg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.35.139 with SMTP id p11mr826010bkd.178.1264087058612; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:17:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5709ce311001210712k7bc0584m658ce091813f4585@mail.gmail.com> References: <5709ce311001210622u43233cacw9646cc0306a6b907@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210712k7bc0584m658ce091813f4585@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:17:38 +0100 Message-ID: From: BSD Life To: freebsd-geom Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: geli recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:17:40 -0000 2010/1/21 Alaksiej C > Generally, yes, "geli restore" would save you. Of course, BIOS > firmware could take enough space to harm not only metadata, but some > data also, but not much. > > As Ivan Voras mentioned, geli in FreeBSD8 does metadata backup > automatically by default, so check your /var/backups/ > I think it was initialized with 7.0 or stable between 7.0 and 7.1, /var/backup is empty. And Ivan, do you mean i should reinit it? Thanks for your help