Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:49:40 -0500 | From | Russell Berry <> | Subject | Re: backing up configuration |
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First, there is *most_likely* a more appropriate list for such questions. Second, I am guilty of posting such questions here myself :-)
In answer to your question, I would suggest something more like:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/net/someremote/host.image bs=16384
that will get absolutely everything on /dev/hda as a single image, not as a file. naturally you could then run gzip host.image if you choose to. Now what's the bit about writing zeros? Is there nothing on this disk? Do you _just_ want the MBR? If it's a DOS partition MBR you want, you can do:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/MBR bs=446 count=1
That will copy your MBR to a file called /tmp/MBR which you can then put back in place by using the same command reversing the of/if.
hope this helps...
---russ
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