Hello SuSE people, I have a new sata hard drive that is failing. I made a complete back-up using kdar of the drive. (To a separate spare drive) I have a dma number to return the drive. They will either replace it or repair it. When they get it they will destroy all data on the drive and when I receive it back it will be blank. No partitions, nothing.
My question is: when I put the drive into service again will the backup restore everything? There were quite a few partitions on the drive. (primary & extended) I am thinking -NO. That I will have to reformat the drive and re-create the partitions as they were originally before I can restore the data. Am I correct in this assumption? I am pretty familiar with the YAST partitioner tool but wonder how I recreate the original partitions exactly? Or is it really necessary? I assume that there are no backup programs that actually re-create an entire blank drive. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
