Re: restoring MBR

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.


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