Backing up Ubuntu

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Using dd, it helps to copy more than the boot sector if you want the boot
loader too.  I used to copy the first 63 sectors in the old CHS days.  Now
with LBA and much larger disks to store stuff, I generally copy the first
megabyte and restore that before anything else.  This has generally worked,
depending on which boot loader and the recovery of the boot loadfer's
targets.

YMMV of course.


On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:27 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> PS:
>
> Restoring an install by tar or cp never failed for me. Restoring MBRs
> using dd never fail per se, but it not always did restore what was
> expect. It's tricky insofar, as it not necessarily restores a
> bootloader.
>
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