Hi everyone,
Hope this isn't too off topic, but Tomsrtbt is
useful for rescuing, restoring and cloning. I'd
like to make tars, CDR, of say my linux or dos/w9x
partitions and then be able to rescue from them.
This should work in general with Tomsrtbt. I'd like
to do this now to move over to a larger drive. One
question is the MBR for the disk I'm backing up.
I have an old unifix distribution installed. At
least it runs and I'd like to save it in case
upgrades fail. It doesn't use a lilo boot loader.
I could dd the mbr to a file and dd it back to the.
`dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.mbr bs=446 count=1'
After un-tarring this would effectively clone the
stuff onto a new drive right ? I've seen bs=446 for
the write and bs=512 for the read with dd, any reason
for the different bs' ? I imagine the new partitition
should be flagged bootable. Can anyone share their
experiences or tips ?
Thanks
Mike
