Hi,

Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-23 01:36:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc]:
> Paul Mantz wrote:
> 
> > A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at 
> > http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals 
> > exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all.  If 
> > you were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive 
> > failure, you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader.
> 
> yes you're right, I forgott to mention, that I make a backup of the MBR 
> as well using:
> 
>     dd if=/dev/XXX of=mbr.backup bs=512 count=1

the MBR is trivial (Debian: 'apt-cache show mbr'). The interesting part is the
Windoze bootloader ...

Aside from that, you've got the partition table in there. You might not want
to restore that on a HDD with different size.

Regards,
Holger

P.S.: As a side note, for restoring a Linux system (at the very least if
      it's Debian or Ubuntu based), I wouldn't restore from an image, I'd
      reinstall with FAI. That's probably faster and you get what you want,
      not what you previously had.

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