On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:42:07AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > I've got a system running amd64/mp -current (latest source update on > February 1st) and have noticed (for quite a while, actually) that the > nightly backup of / to /altroot wasn't working. I finally got around to > looking into this and discovered that the /etc/daily script was > explicitly checking for /dev/whatever in the /altroot fstab entry -- but > I've been using DUIDs (as set up by the installer). > > Shouldn't the daily script be updated to handle DUIDs as well as > explicit devices in /etc/fstab? > > Dave > > -- > Dave Anderson > <d...@daveanderson.com> >
Does this diff work for you? Test with duid and without would be nice. :-) And don't be bashful. Anybody can test! .... Ken Index: daily =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/daily,v retrieving revision 1.72 diff -u -p -r1.72 daily --- daily 6 Dec 2011 21:02:39 -0000 1.72 +++ daily 7 Feb 2012 20:14:26 -0000 @@ -90,20 +90,20 @@ if [ -f /var/account/acct ]; then fi # If ROOTBACKUP is set to 1 in the environment, and -# if filesystem named /altroot is type ffs, on /dev/* and mounted "xx", +# if filesystem named /altroot is type ffs and mounted "xx", # use it as a backup root filesystem to be updated daily. next_part "Backing up root filesystem:" while [ "X$ROOTBACKUP" = X1 ]; do - rootbak=`awk '$2 == "/altroot" && $1 ~ /^\/dev\// && $3 == "ffs" && \ - $4 ~ /xx/ \ - { print substr($1, 6) }' < /etc/fstab` + rootbak=`awk '$2 == "/altroot" && $3 == "ffs" && $4 ~ /xx/ \ + { print $1 }' < /etc/fstab` if [ -z "$rootbak" ]; then echo "No xx ffs /altroot device found in the fstab(5)." break fi - bakdisk=${rootbak%[a-p]} + rootbak=${rootbak#/dev/} + bakdisk=${rootbak%%?(.)[a-p]} sysctl -n hw.disknames | grep -Fqw $bakdisk || break - bakpart=${rootbak#$bakdisk} + bakpart=${rootbak##$bakdisk?(.)} baksize=`disklabel $bakdisk 2>/dev/null | \ awk -v "part=$bakpart:" '$1 == part { print $2 }'` rootdev=`mount | awk '$3 == "/" && $1 ~ /^\/dev\// && $5 == "ffs" \