On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote: >>>>> 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 > > Okay, well this script isn't perfect and it sure won't help after the > problem, but it will save all possible MBRs and fdisk output for a bunch > of candidate disks:
(...) This should be done _at install time_ when things can badly break. Once you've lost your MBR making a backup of the _wrong_ MBR is of course useless. 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.2011.07.31.12.06...@gmail.com
