Re: Backing up system using mondo ?
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 19:41, D. J. Bolderman wrote:
> Is anyone here using mondo to backup their server ? I'm looking for a
> solution to backup the critical files/dirs of my server, including the
> maildirs. I read that mondo creates bootable rescue cd's, so it sounds
> good. But before I'm diving into another "experience" I would like to
> hear some opinions of you first.
I've used it successfully to restore a laptop. I strongly recommend
man mondoarchive
and the HOWTO at
www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/new/Mondo-Rescue-Mindi-Linux-HOWTO-9.html
If you back up to nfs like I do, make the boot floppies at backup time.
Once you understand it, it's pretty slick. Attached is a copy of en
email I sent someone else about my one restore experience.
>From dale@meridian-electric.com Sat Jun 22 16:22:49 2002
Subject: Re: Mondo
From: Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>
To: Richard Otte <otte@cats.ucsc.edu>
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Sorry it took so long to get back to you but I've been extremely busy
and had plans to restore a laptop that was corrupted, so I wanted to
finish that first.
Good news, it restored OK. Bad news, being a laptop with pcmcia nic and
backup to nfs, things did not go smoothly. I believe if I backed up to
cdrom or had a pci nic I may not have had a problem.
Also I should have written the boot/rescue floppies at backup time. I
tried to write the boot floppy later with dd and cat, and neither would
boot however the data disks worked OK. Also the CD created form the
mindi.iso image would not boot, L80 80. I managed to boot the laptop
and run mindi to create the boot floppy and that worked, along with the
original data floppies created with dd. Then from another computer I
made cdrom disk from the iso image on nfs.
So lesson learned, create cdrom disks and/or boot floppies at backup.
I use a custom kernel so I recompiled with mondo's requirements and had
to use -k vmlinuz-2.4.18 since I had multiple kernel images to boot
from. Also -s 700m helps since 650m is the default for for image size.
I strongly suggest you test it somehow, before you need to restore like
I did. Overall I'm pleased with mondo and will continue using it.On
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