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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:41:41 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Siegfried P Pietralla <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lost vinum config
Message-ID:  <20020925001141.GA30669@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0B18@AUSYM103>
References:  <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0B18@AUSYM103>

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On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at  9:48:22 +1000, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i'm running 4.3 on partition ad0s3. i tried to install 4.6.2 on ad3s2 and
> when i booted back up on ad0s3 i lost my vinum partition which lives in
> ad3s4a ( i did not note down the error message :( so don't ask :) ). i did a
> ' dd if=/dev/ad3s4a | od -c ' and it looked as though my vinum config was
> still there. so i reran my vinum create script and recreated all my volumes
> and i got back all my filesystems :)
>
> is there a one liner i can use to recover vinum under these
> circumstances ?

Hardly.  There must be 1000 ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and
you haven't even described exactly what happened.

> or should i just keep a copy of the first nnn blocks of the vinum
> partition somewhere else as a backup ? 

That couldn't harm.

> or can you generate a vinum create script from your existing
> configuration ?

Yes.  vinum dumpconfig.

> location: 15th floor 2-26 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

Heh.  I was right outside there just a couple of weeks ago.

Greg
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