misc/86388: periodic(8) daily should backup bsdlabel(8) / fdisk(8) disk labels

[Maxim Konovalov]

The following reply was made to PR bin/86388; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/86388: periodic(8) daily should backup bsdlabel(8) / fdisk(8)
 disk labels
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:20:24 +0400 (MSD)

 [...]
 >  I would argue that storing bsdlabel(8), fdisk(8) or other storage
 >  configuration information on the storage itself is the best idea.
 
 The submitter said:
 
 % This is exceptionally useful in the event that you need to recover
 % your system from an offsite storage tape backup to another facility
 % on new (identical) hardware.
 
 Personally I'm always trying to create a copy of fdisk/disklabel and
 backup them when install new machine but it is very easy to forget
 about that procedure when you add a disk or change its layout.  I
 helped to other people to repair their disklabels several times
 already and from time to time see this question in FreeBSD maillists.
 There are several tools for partitions/slices restore in ports.  Even
 one is under src/. Believe me, this information saves a lot of man
 hours and nerve and Net|OpenBSD have this functionality for a reason.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov