Re: How do I back up a running system?
>> I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the
>> entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor
>> (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually
>> bails out before it completes the backup.
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> And what does mondoarchive.log say?
>
mondoarchive gets up to here then nothing happens (for several hours):
---evalcall---E---
---evalcall---1--- Dividing filelist into sets
---evalcall---2--- TASK: [********************] 97% done; 0:01 to go
---evalcall---E---
---evalcall---1--- Dividing filelist into sets
---evalcall---2--- TASK: [********************] 98% done; 0:01 to go
---evalcall---E---
Your backup will occupy one meeeeellion media! (maybe 10)
Done.
Copying Mondo's core files to the scratch directory
Done.
Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks
Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/sda
/var/tmp/mondo-temp/tmp.mondo.9418/tmp.mondo.8981
The log gets this far then nothing happens:
# tail /var/log/mondo-archive.log
You are using Mindi-Linux v2.2.0-r881 to make boot+data disks
Analyzing dependency requirements Done.
Making complete dependency list 100% |cp:
cannot stat `/usr/games/petris': No such file or directory
Cannot find /usr/games/petris. You will not
be able to play petris during restore.
Done.
Analyzing your keyboard's configuration.
Adding the following keyboard mapping tables: Done.
Dropping i686-optimized libraries if appropriate.
I am running mondoarchive with the following options:
mondoarchive -OiF -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 -d /var/tmp/mondoarchive -S
/var/tmp/mondo-scratch -T /var/tmp/mondo-temp -E "/home /mnt /root/packages
/var/cache/apt/archives"
I get the same result when I run it without the -k option
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