On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:15:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:52:46 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It is exactly what it seems >>> but I cannot find such a file in Debian systems :-? >> >> One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: >> >> dd if=/dev/sda \ >> of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \ >> bs=512 \ >> count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1 > > Good, but there is no cron job at install time :-P > > I mean, ideally, the installer should perform automatically a backup of > the MBR for all of the detected hard disks "just in case". What the user > does afterwards is not the business of the operating system (while I > agree that having a copy of the MBR is a very good idea).
I beg (politely) to disagree. IMHO it is up to the user/administrator to determine, implement and test the required backup strategy. The MBR is just a very small part of that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0v4qd$2ka$3...@dough.gmane.org
