Re: restoring MBR

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

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