Re: Mondo on Debian 3.0 (Was Re: EVMS vs. LVM)
* nuk (nuk@panix.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:01:07 -0400, nuk wrote:
> > > But I noticed that Debian does support EVMS. Is it a 'superset' of the
> > > features of LVM, or what?
> >
> > Mostly yes. For example, EMVS includes compatibility with Linux LVM volume
> > groups and logical volumes. You can find documentation on EMVS at
> > http://evms.sourceforge.net/ .
>
> Cool. That sounds like what I want/need, then. I've been browsing the
> EVMS site, and looking thru the documents. I must say the Comparison
> chart is impressive, if everything works as advertised.
>
> I guess the last remaining hangup/gotcha for me is mondo. I use mondo to
> back up the critical system files on my small server to CDRW, so I can pop
> them in and do a more or less bare-metal recover if needed. I know mondo
> works w/ RedHat 7.3, and w/ LVM. I've been looking at the mondo site, and
> see no mention of EVMS anywhere. And it sounds like it is kind of iffy
> under Debian 3.0 at the moment. Not a good sign.
>
> Anyone out there running mondo on Debian 3.0, w/ or w/o EVMS (preferably
> w/)?
>
Me. Without EVMS. Runs just fine, but if you use grub, make sure you
have the latest version. Earlier versions handled only lilo with any
facility.
Cam
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