Backup and restore of RHEL 4.5

Anton Hofmann doomrunner.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 13:04:17 UTC 2009


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Rohit khaladkar schrieb:
> Thanks a lot! This helps!
> The requirement that I have is I would be upgrading the server from Red Hat
> 4.5 to Redhat 5.2.
> But if something goes wrong , I need to have a backup plan to restore
> everything back.
> 
> Please let me know if anyone thinks, there would a better way out after
> looking at the requirements.
> 

As far as i know partimage can´t copy the bootloader in the mbr, after a
restore you have to reinstall the bootloader with the recovery system or
make a backup of the mbr before making the image with partimage.

In order to backup only the first few bytes containing the MBR and the
partition table you can use dd:

dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image count=1 bs=512

to restore the mbr just start a linux live-system and enter the
following command:

dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/hdx

You can backup the MBR to a floppy-disk or a USB-stick, whatever you prefer.

T-One
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