HowTo Backup And Restore The Master Boot Record (MBR)
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis HowTo shows how to use the dd utility to backup and restore the Master Boot Record (MBR).
- Note: This HowTo assumes that the MBR to backup and restore is located on: "sda".
- Backup the MBR to: "/var/nst/backup/mbrbackup"
[root@probe ~]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/var/nst/backup/mbrbackup bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 5.6701e-05 s, 9.0 MB/s [root@probe ~]#