Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

[Isaac Dupree]

Zhu Yi wrote:
> 3. The backup policy.
>
> Garimella's patch backups every time before grub-setup overwrote the
> boot sectors. There might be a problem when someone run
> grub-setup/grub-install twice. So the backup image ends up with the
> grub2 boot sectors. This makes the recovery for the "real" boot sectors
> impossible. My patch won't overwrite if a previous backup image already
> existed. grub-install will remove the backup image after a successful
> recovery.

maybe the boot sector is small enough that we could just keep separate 
additional backup files each time grub-setup/grub-install is used? e.g.
backup-1
backup-2
backup-3

or maybe using date/time instead of sequential numbering would be nicer.

-Isaac