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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.

And what does mondoarchive.log say?

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 don't know what version that is: I run Mindi v2.0.7.2-r2575 and Mondo Archive v2.2.9.3-r2622.
If I were in your situation I would download the latest from upstream:
http://mondorescue.muskokamug.org/debian/5.0/
because Debian is backleveled, do it again, and then save my mondoarchive + mindi logs in their entirety and post the error and the logs on the mondo forum where the response is excellent:
mondo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
and also post what you posted here: your calling parameters, and see what Bruno Cornec says, he is the lead developer and on top of things.


The latest version seems to work from the upstream site. I did a restore on a vmware virtual machine and it died during bootup. I didn't have any problems using an older version of vmware.

I managed to back my system up successfully using a combination of backupninja and genisoimage. A much cruder but more straightforward approach.


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