On 08/15/2010 01:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and
> restore of
> the mbr.
>
> And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems
> when the new
> harddisk has a different size?
> Just tar up
> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore
> of
> the mbr.
>
> And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the
> new
> harddisk has a different size?
> Just tar up everything.
>
> Ok, so is this correct?
Backup with tar;
1. boot from c
On Saturday 14 August 2010, Adam Carter wrote:
> This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look?
>
> File systems;
> /dev/sda1 - /boot
> /dev/sda2 - swap
> /dev/sda3 - /
>
> So to backup;
> 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda
> of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 co
This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look?
File systems;
/dev/sda1 - /boot
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - /
So to backup;
1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda
of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin
3. Get /
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