how about adding a periodic script to /etc/periodic/daily to backup the information? the idea was raised a long time ago already, but was abandoned [1]. cheers. alex [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/86388 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:24:58PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2010/07/19 14:37, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > >> If you have previous saved gpart information (e.g. start/end) then you > >> can safely destroy and re-create the GPT partitions without destroying > >> the data. > >> > >> Note that you may need to backup and dd the first and last sector of > >> your hard drive before proceeding. > >> > > > > Could someone post a example of how to correctly backup a gpart > > partition information > > For now it would be to backup the first 34 and last 33 sectors of a > given disk. Another way would be to copy what gpart show says and > restore it manually. > > Cheers, > - -- > Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMRNC6AAoJEATO+BI/yjfBEjcIAIj3e/n7DUBfXhaUKEOSrP2q > fvJlAKiQoDyRpzuovT/9/c9jCUxOOgpW43S7EVQ244uzgVEGB2Su5jXOjX6dU+rZ > ba0JwH60ANMB6RAsJFSk1cT6xMmQ4TMfSYCwwlx9p6Fbv2ejdd5gKE+zvbc20fwN > HIojqdF9xIW2XT3gjvAngn69c/0EtHoJVG1gydlO3H3te6iDVM6CY5yHV71WJrEk > cFDD6x65VYmC2GWYYbeokf2ud8nry1QjzxzBJRd9T0eHXPWweJBC7lOsIOSW5QYa > 1VsyhFE8s1xPwtYTAYFUw3IhBzJdLt36n+YAEQEbrX20/G5+Qn2oo/bw0kIYrFg= > =SsvG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Mon Jul 19 2010 - 22:37:42 UTC
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