MBR - Knowledge Base Archives - Hivelocity Hosting https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/tag/mbr/ Dedicated Servers, Private Cloud & Colocation Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:46:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 How to take the backup of MBR on linux server? https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-take-the-backup-of-mbr-on-linux-server/ https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-take-the-backup-of-mbr-on-linux-server/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:52:23 +0000 https://kb.hivelocity.net/?p=10983 Always recommended that you should take backup MBR. It is hard disk partition table on your server. We can use dd command to take a backup for MBR. ================================= [root@~]# dd if=/dev/hdX of=/tmp/hda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 ================================= Replace X with the actual device name. ex. /dev/hda or /dev/sda In order to restore it back on the …

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Always recommended that you should take backup MBR.

It is hard disk partition table on your server.

We can use dd command to take a backup for MBR.

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[root@~]# dd if=/dev/hdX of=/tmp/hda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
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Replace X with the actual device name. ex. /dev/hda or /dev/sda

In order to restore it back on the server, use following command

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[root@~]# dd if= hda-mbr.bin of=/hev/hdX bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446
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