Paul Mantz wrote:
> A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at
> http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals
> exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all. If
> you were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive
> failure, you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader.
yes you're right, I forgott to mention, that I make a backup of the MBR
as well using:
dd if=/dev/XXX of=mbr.backup bs=512 count=1
Thanks for mentioning.
> A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared
> image, preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix
> liveCD if you don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).
This is what I suggested.
- Kurt
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