Backing up a Server

[Shawn Tayler]

Thanks Kurt,

I'll give it another go but it never seems to work for me.....

Shawn

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:18:04 -0500 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
exclaimed:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:04:16PM -0800, Shawn Tayler took 22 lines to
> write:
> > Hi Guys,
> > 
> > I am currently backing up a server for a client.  This is in
> > anticipation of the arrival of a new HD to be installed into it.  This
> > is a Linux/Samba file server for a few Windows desktops.  I am simply
> > using tar/ssh to put the HD partitions onto another PC for temp
> > storage.
> > 
> > The question that came to mind while doing this was brought up by my
> > plans to restore everythging onto the new HD.  How does one save the
> > MBR and other "System areas" of a HD?  The  old dd if=/dev/sda
> > of=somefile.bin count=1 bs=512 does mpt seem to cut it.  I still end up
> > using a bootable CD and lilo'ing the drive.
> 
> I presume you copy somefile.bin back to the new disk? Alternatively, you
> can just say
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb count=1 bs=512
> 
> to got straight from disk to disk. I don't know why it didn't work for
> you before.
> 
> Kurt
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