>>>>> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 08:43:51 -0500, John Drescher said:
> 
> > Can bacula store this information? I'm thinking of how to do recoveries,
> > and I'm wondering how i'd restore to bare metal, if i didn't have
> > partition info, and the mbr to hand seperatly from the backup?
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> 
> sfdisk can store the partition info this. dd can create a backup of
> the mbr. You can create a run before job that calls both of these.

Beware that the disk used for the recovery might not be the same size as the
original.

It might be better to recover by reinstalling the OS in the normal way and
then restore the backup.

__Martin

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