Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:37:06 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to? Message-ID: <493B36D2.2040509@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20081207000913.V1934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <493AFD81.6020705@polands.org> <20081207000913.V1934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the >> gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. >> >> If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a "one-time" backup >> such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the >> question being I want to > > assuming you do gmirror first and then gstripe of gmirror then > use dd to read last sectors of each disk drive and each gmirror device. > and backup disklabels > Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, create a gstripe of two gmirrors. If you don't mind me asking, how would one use the dd output you described above to restore those data? Would it include the gjournal metadata as well? -- Regards, Doug
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