periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*
Brian A. Seklecki
lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Tue Sep 20 17:32:23 PDT 2005
All:
I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont backup
fdisk/disklabel output. I'm taken back a bit; NetBSD and OpenBSD have
always done this (archive to /var/backup). We backup the password and
group files, but not system info.
Obviously, RAID can mitigate the need for this, but imagine a DRP scenario
where you have to recover a host to an offsite warm/cold failover facility
from off-site tape backups. You can get your vendor to provide identical
hardware, but without disk parition/slice info, how are you going to
recover your disks?
It's bad enough we don't have a unified way to talk to RAID controllers
yet...the least we can do is try.
We should probably also backup gmirror/gvinum config outputs...
*sigh*
~BAS
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