On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:22:38 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > 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.
You don't get it. The MBR can get bricked at install time *before* the user can even make a backup. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.07.29.20.40...@gmail.com
