Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Paul Mantz wrote: > >> A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at >> http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals >> exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all. If >> you were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive >> failure, you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader. > > yes you're right, I forgott to mention, that I make a backup of the MBR > as well using: > > dd if=/dev/XXX of=mbr.backup bs=512 count=1 > > Thanks for mentioning. > >> A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared >> image, preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix >> liveCD if you don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).
Clonezilla-live will do all of this for you: http://www.clonezilla.org/. It saves the mbr/partition table and the used portions of filesystems using partimag or ntfsclone, and will reconstruct the image back to a drive. If you save an image once in a while you should be able to quickly get back to a point where you can restore newer data directly from backuppc. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
