Overview

Randy Goddard tells us about some quick command line utilities for backing up a disk’s master boot record and partition information, as well as how to document vital system info quickly and easily.

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Time: 10:34

Size: 9.7 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Command for backing up your MBR:

dd if=/dev/sda of=~/$servernamembr bs=1 count=512

Command for documenting your partition tables:

fdisk -l /dev/sda> ~/$servernamefdisk

(Remember that the “sda” in these two commands is used as a placeholder for whichever disk you are backing up. Other possible ordinal names for your various disks include: sdb, hda, hdb, hdc, etc.)

config.sh is descibed in a Cool Solutions article