How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?
Roberto Ragusa
mail at robertoragusa.it
Thu Nov 12 09:38:15 UTC 2009
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> # kpartx -av /dev/loop1
[...]
> But the problem is that I can only backup/clone the filesystems of my
> virtual machine within a logical volume. I can't backup the Master Boot
> Record (MBR) of the virtual machine within a logical volume. For example,
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.hda bs=512 count=1
>
> Because /dev/hda resides in a logical volume. The logical volume is a
> virtual harddisk for my virtual machine.
Maybe I didn't really understand your setup, but... isn't your mbr
simply on /dev/loop1?
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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