Backup MBR on linux server....

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Backup MBR on Linux server

How to take a backup for hard disk partition table on any Linux server is given below.
It is always recommended that one should take backup of hard disk partition table that is MBR.

we can use dd command to take a backup for MBR.
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[root@sweden ~]# dd if=/dev/hdX of=/tmp/hda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
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Please 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@sweden ~]# dd if= hda-mbr.bin of=/hev/hdX bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446
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