Re: backing up a drive
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not just
partition. I've had some systems that wouldn't accept the restored
version (PC wouldn't boot anymore due to no OS found) unless the whole
disk was restored.
I've done this plenty of times over the years. You just need to rerun a
boot loader following the partition restore. Lilo does well for this.
The bootloader can be run from a local Linux partition or from a live
cdrom as is preferred by the admin. Think about disaster recovery which
ever way you go (eg, the entire disk is toast).
Rob
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