I am not sure if this has ever been addressed in present or past. But suppose I make a backup of a computer that has 1 IDE and 2 SATA hdds. When backing up it properly does the MBR, First sectors and each partition on each drive into the network share, however on restoring them (assuming I put a fresh set of untouched HDDs from the static bags. ) Only the first drive truly gets restored, in the case hda since it is enumerated first. Each subsequent drive however does not see any restoration. When noting what is going on it is not properly writing the MBR back to the disk to set up the basic partition holders. If I manually create the partitions albeit blank, restoration across all drives in system continue as would be expected, else wise fails out with invalid second argument. noting that if I drop to the shell and issue a - Code: Select all
dd if=sda of=/dev/sda
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dd if=sdb of=/dev/sdb
~jon
of course I would be the one. It appears that if you could do an iterative loop for each device that has files enumerated for it in the same manor the first drive is completed, it should work. (since the main thing just seems to be that it is not restoring out the basic partition table prior to parted attempting to write to a non-existing first partition of the second and tertiary drives. What are your thoughts [I feel another update about to happen] lol.
. I will attempt to break use( 
) it over the next week, but for now it appears all questions and problems have been answered. 
