Kurt Tunkko wrote:
> 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
> 
> Thanks for mentioning.
> 
>> A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared 
>> image, preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix 
>> liveCD if you don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).

Clonezilla-live will do all of this for you: http://www.clonezilla.org/. 
   It saves the mbr/partition table and the used portions of filesystems 
using partimag or ntfsclone, and will reconstruct the image back to a 
drive. If you save an image once in a while you should be able to 
quickly get back to a point where you can restore newer data directly 
from backuppc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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