Backup and Restor MBR

[Hadders]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to install Vista (dual-boot) and was wondering if it was easy
>> to just back it up rather than running grub?
>
> # dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/filename bs=512 count=1
>
okay, I know that one, hadn't realised that 512bytes was the entire MBR.

I would assume I can just reverse the input file (if) and output file 
(of) statements to restore?

Thanks