Hi,
Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-23 01:36:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc]:
> 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
the MBR is trivial (Debian: 'apt-cache show mbr'). The interesting part is the
Windoze bootloader ...
Aside from that, you've got the partition table in there. You might not want
to restore that on a HDD with different size.
Regards,
Holger
P.S.: As a side note, for restoring a Linux system (at the very least if
it's Debian or Ubuntu based), I wouldn't restore from an image, I'd
reinstall with FAI. That's probably faster and you get what you want,
not what you previously had.
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