man 8 daily etc/daily This script is run daily. It currently does the following: ... Creates a backup root file system which is updated daily. This only happens if the following conditions are met:
1. The environment variable ROOTBACKUP must be set. For ex- ample, the following can be added to root's crontab(5): ROOTBACKUP=1 2. The mount directory /altroot must exist, and there must be an /etc/fstab entry specifying `xx' for the mount options, e.g. /dev/wd0j /altroot ffs xx 0 0 ... Thanks, Josh On 11/6/07, Frans Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering....... > > Has anyone ever thought of having 2 openbsd installations to boot from ? > This way I could upgrade the installation on one slice/disk and boot from it! > > Then if the kernel would crash/reboot the other slice would be used for > booting. > > So at boot time the active slice is changed, after booting its changed back > if there are no troubles! > > > Perhaps this is an ugly work around to most, but it might save my life when a > system refuses to boot the active slice...... Most of this can be > prevented with > remote consoles or ILO stuff I guess! What do you think ? FUD ? ;)