Backup and Restore MBR

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:18:09AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 07:01 +0530, 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
> No, No, NO. The MBR is only the first 446 bytes of block 0. The rest is
> the partition table. I assume you don't want to rewrite the partition
> table.

Quite. So you save the partition table separately:

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > foo.txt

For more than you ever wanted to know about how to do this sort of
thing,
http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html.

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