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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