This document describes the use of mondo and mindi tools to realize disaster recovery backup of your systems. It provides information on installation, backup and restore modes, hardware and software requirements, and answers to some frequently asked questions. The goals are to offer a general view of the functions and their best usages. Mondo Rescue is a Disaster Recovery Solution which allows you to effortlessly backup and interactively restore Linux, Windows and other supported filesystem partitions to/from CD/DVD-+R/RW media, tape, NFS. And Mindi Linux provides the bootable emergency restore media which Mondo uses at boot-time. License This HOWTO is a free documentation.

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This document is distributed hoping it will be useful, but without any guaranty; you're completely responsible of its use, and coulnd't complain in case it doesn't work, or even if it breaks the hardware. All the software included in it, if not already copyrighted is released under the GPL. This HOWTO serves to help people get started with using mondo/mindi as way to backup/restore their system. This is a work constantly evolving. It was started by Hugo Rabson and has since been worked upon by a number of people. See the ' web page for a list of members of the development team. There are many ways to contribute to the Linux movement without actually writing code.

One of the most important is writing documentation, allowing each person to share their knowledge with thousands of others around the world. This HOWTO is designed to help you get familiar with how Mondo/Mindi works. Opinions expressed here are those of the authors. Informations are provided in the aim to be useful to the readers. However, there can't be, through this document, any warranty of any kind on the way it works on your systems, nor the author could be responsible for any problem caused by the use of these informations.

However, software editors don't garantee you a lot either (re-read the contracts). I rely on you, the reader, to make this HOWTO useful. THis HOWTO is probably incomplete even if it tries to be accurate to the best of our knowledge. If you have any suggestions, corrections, recommandations or congratulations:-) don't hesitate to send them to me, and I will try to incorporate them in a next revision or to the; e-mail the list at; tell us what is wrong and how it should be fixed.

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See Mondo's page for more information. Please note that we do our best to help everyone but it is difficult for us to help you if you do not attach a log file to your e-mail. Let me say that again - attach your log file to your e-mail! Without it we can't offer any tangible help because you aren't either. That's what the log file is for. It is located at /var/log/mondoarchive.log; and /var/log/mindi.log (if called alone) or at /var/log/mondorestore.log This document was originaly written by native english speakers, but is maintained by a non-native english speaker so help me correct mistaques (sic) instead of rumbling that I've done one:-) I am also willing to answer general questions on MondoRescue, the best I can. Before doing so, please read all of the information in this HOWTO, and then send me detailed information about the problem, especially including the logs generated by the tools, or traces obtained (Did I say that already:-].

If you publish this document on a CD-ROM or in hardcopy form, a complimentary copy would be appreciated; mail me for my postal address. Also consider making a donation to the Linux Documentation Project to help support free documentation for Linux. Contact the Linux HOWTO coordinator, Guylhem AZNAR. Choose from the list of supported backup media types. The media you will use most often are CD/DVD-+R, CD/DVD-+RW, tape, NFS and hard disk. If you want to backup/restore over a network, choose 'NFS'.

If you want to backup/restore to/from a local partition or if you simply want to store the ISO images in a local directory until you have time or facilities to burn them to CD's, choose 'hard disk'. If you choose 'CD/DVD-+R[W]' or 'tape' then in general your hardware will be detected and configured for you. If you are backing up to CD/DVD-+R[W] then Mondo will ask you if your CD burner has BurnProof technology, is inside a laptop, or is otherwise eccentric. If you are backing up to a tape streamer then you will not see this message.

How much compression do you want? None, if your tape streamer has built-in hardware compression. Maximum, if your CPU is blazingly fast. Average should do just fine for most situations. If you want to backup the whole computer (excluding /sys, /run and /proc, naturally as well as /tmp) then leave this as / which is the default. Otherwise, specify subsets, (e.g.

/usr/local /home ) being sure to put a pipe in between each path. If you are backing up your whole computer then you might want to exclude certain directories, e.g. Please specify them in the 'exclude directories' dialog box. Please put a pipe in between each path, e.g. /shared/private /scratch /nfs /windows If you want to verify the archives after writing them to media, say 'yes' here. If you have absolute faith in your hardware and your Linux distribution, say 'no'.

And a little prayer. If you are sure you want to go ahead, say 'yes' and find something else to do while Mondo backs up your computer. If you say 'no' then you will be unceremoniously dumped at the shell prompt.:-) The backup process will now commence. There are some pre-backup tasks to be carried out first but the backup is essentially underway. To simplify the backup process, you were asked a series of questions. Download Driver Modem Telkomsel Flash Huawei. Next time, if you like, you could call mondoarchive with various command-line switches to control its behavior, instead of answering a series of questions. See the man page for details.

Mondo will make a catalog of all files to be backed up. This may take up to five minutes.

The list of files will be divided into sets, approximately 4 MB (before compression) of files per set. This typically takes one minute.

Mondo calls Mindi. Mindi generates bootable media image and auxiliary data disk images which are based on your existing Linux distribution and filesystem. That way, you can be sure Mondo's tools will be compatible with your existing filesystems and binaries: Mondo's tools are your tools. Mindi takes up to five minutes to run. Finally, Mondo begins backing up your computer. This process may take a few minutes or a few hours, depending on how much data you are archiving, how fast your CPU is, how much RAM you have, and so on. It will backup your regular files and then your large files (files larger than approximately 32MB).

If you have opted to verify your backups, Mondo will do that too. • Try to boot from the first media of the backup. Choose 'Compare Mode' by typing compare at the boot screen. • If you can boot, fine. Download Discography Kat more. If not, make a Mindi 'Test' CD to checkout the compatibility of your system.

(see for more details). Remove the media; boot your computer as usual; execute as root. Bash# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 blank=fast -eject -v mindi.iso bash# wodim dev=0,0,0 speed=4 blank=fast -eject -v mindi.iso Reboot your system with the created Mindi CD, with the BIOS set to boot from CD. If the result is a command line in 'Expert' mode, your system checks out.

Remove the CD and reboot your system. • If you still cannot boot from Mindi's CD then please e-mail the for help.

When making a backup on a live system, there will always be processes running that will write out data on the system after you have made the backup and before you have made the compare, this will result in difference showing up when comparing your backup. For a full explanation and what can be done to avoid this, please read this section. • This QuickStart covers the ideal case. Upon receiving any system feedback/errors, read each related HOWTO section. A test backup of your /home directory to CD-Rs using the command line. Bash# mondoarchive -OVc 4 -I /home -gF The 'c' means you must be writing to CD-Rs, not CD-RWs (the latter would require 'w' instead of 'c').

The '4' is the speed of your CD writer. The string after -I is the path to be backed up. The '-gF' means you are going to see the pretty yellow-on-blue screen instead of the boring white-on-black screen.:) It also means Mondo will not offer to create physical boot media for you. It is assumed that you are able to boot from the CD which Mondo has generated. A backup of your whole filesystem to NFS using the command line.

Bash# mkdir -p /mnt/nfs bash# mount nfs://192.168.1.28:/home/nfs /mnt/nfs bash# mondoarchive -OVn nfs://192.168.1.28:/home/nfs -gF[.] bash# umount /mnt/nfs bash# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -eject -v /var/cache/mindi/mindi.iso Note that you have to mount the NFS partition, backup to it, unmount it, and create a boot CD to allow you to restore from scratch if necessary. To reassure yourself that you will be able to restore from the NFS share even if your PC is wiped, please boot from the Mindi CD and type 'compare'. The on-screen instructions from that point on should be sufficient. A backup of your whole filesystem to tape using the command line. Bash# mondoarchive -OVt -d /dev/st0 -9 -L -g In this case, we assume Syslinux is incompatible with your boot media. For some reason, some BIOSes just don't like Syslinux.

If you find this to be the case for your computer, please use '-L' to force Mondo to use LILO instead of Syslinux as the boot loader for its media. (NB: This has nothing to do with which boot loader your hard drive uses.) Also, it is a good habit to specify your tape streamer with '-d '. You don't usually need to but it's good to be on the safe side. Some computers call your tape streamer /dev/osst0, some call it /dev/ftape. Also, depending on the tape streamer model, a tape should be inserted in the tape drive before starting mondoarchive, otherwise it may not recognize the drive. Mondo Rescue backs up your file system to CD, tape, NFS (archives stored remotely) or ISO's (archives stored locally).

Mondo uses afio as the backup engine; afio is a well-respected replacement for tar. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you may restore some or all of your system, even if your hard drives are now blank. Mondo Rescue can do a lot of other cool things: • You can use Mondo to clone an installation of Linux. Just backup the crucial stuff and exclude /home, /var/log, etc. • You can backup a non-RAID file system and restore it as RAID including the root partition (if your kernel supports that). • You can backup a system running on one format and restore as another format. • You can restructure your partitions, e.g.

Shrink/enlarge, reassign devices, add hard drives, etc, before you partition and format your drives. Mondo will restore your data and amend /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab accordingly. • You can backup Linux/Windows systems, including the boot sectors. Mondo will make everything right at restore-time. (However, do run 'Scandisk' when you first boot into Windows, just in case.) • You can use your Mondo backup CD to verify the integrity of your computer. Mondo's principal virtue is that it protects you from the problems that can arise when you reinstall completely from scratch. If you want to wipe and restore your system every year just as a matter of 'good practice', Mondo is not for you.

However, if you want to get up and running again in a hurry after someone breaks into your computer and wipes it (or if you accidentally wipe it yourself) then Mondo is definitely for you. It will permit you to roll back to a known-good installation in a very short period of time, sometimes as little as twenty minutes. Even if you backup large amounts of data to tape daily and do not want to add yet another backup regime, please consider backing up the core filesystem (i.e. Everything but the directories containing your huge database and your prizewinning novel) every month or so, just in case. You will be glad you did. What is Mondo not? Mondo is not an everyday backup program.

It is not designed to replace tar, afio, kbackup, etc. Mondo is designed to make it possible to recover from scratch if necessary. Tar and afio offer a quick, convenient way to backup small sets of files, sometimes to removable media. Mindi Linux creates a set of boot/root media images that will let you perform basic system maintenance on your Linux distro. The principal virtues of Mindi's boot disks are the fact that they contain your kernel, modules, tools and libraries. You can ask for additional binaries (or other files) to be included on the kit.

The libraries will be added for you. Whichever modules were loaded at backup-time, they are reloaded at boot-time. So, in theory, you will boot into almost the same environment as you were in when you backed up. If you want to add files to your Mindi boot disks, edit '/mindi/deplist.txt' and add the files to that list. The added files and dependencies, will be spread across the data disks at run-time.

Mindi makes sure that Mondo has all the tools it needs at boot-time. Mondo uses fdisk, mkfs, cat, less, more, afio, gzip, bzip2, your keyboard configuration, your glibc libraries, your other libraries, your kernel, your modules. Which is a lot of tools! Mindi takes care of all that, so that Mondo can get on with the job of backing up or restoring your data. Mindi is also handy for making boot CDs/disks which stand on their own. You do not need Mondo. Indeed, if you like, you could use another backup/restore program with Mindi.

Just add it to Mindi's dependency list (type 'locate deplist.txt' to find it). Mindi will include your software on its boot CD/disks the next time you run mindi. Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux are used primarily as Linux backup and cloning tools.

The fall in prices of CD-RW drives and writable discs will allow current users to keep good backups and future users to leverage the cloning capability. Tape drives are more likely to suit your needs if you run a larger installation (or have lots of MP3's). OnStream drives do not play well with Mondo.

I do not know why. It is, in my opinion, something which OnStream should look into. Mondo uses fopen(), fread(), fwrite() and fclose() to interact with tape drives. That works for most drives but some drives just don't like that. Also, depending on the tape streamer model, a tape should be inserted in the tape drive before starting mondoarchive, otherwise it may not recognize the drive. Mondo Rescue has been tested thousands of times on various computers.

It has worked for them. Thousands of users testify to Mondo's stability and its ease of use. However, please test it on your own system before you rely on it.

In fact, do not rely on any software until you have tested it to see if it performs as expected. To establish that Mondo will behave well in an emergency, please be prepared. Run a test backup as follows:- • Run mondoarchive without any command-line options. • Backup a subset of files - e.g. /usr/local - to CD or tape. Say 'yes' when asked if you want to verify them.

• If you are not backing up to CD, please create boot media when prompted. Next, restore archives to your live filesystem. • When mondoarchive terminates, run mondorestore without any command-line options.

• Insert the media when prompted. Wait a moment. • Select a subset of files to restore, e.g. /usr/local/man and /usr/local/bin. • Restore files to /tmp or /root/RESTORED or something similar.

• When mondorestore terminates, compare the restored files to the originals using cmp or diff. Finally, simulate an emergency restore. • Boot from media. • Select 'Interactive Mode' at boot-time. (Type 'interactive' and hit.) • Hit OK when shown the mountlist. Say 'yes' when asked if you accept the mountlist.

• Select files to restore, e.g. /usr/local/man and /usr/local/bin. • Restore files to /tmp or /root/RESTORED or something similar. • When mondorestore terminates, please reboot and compare the restored files to the originals.

FYI, the subroutines to repartition and reformat your drives are very stable. If you are a RAID or LVM user, you might encounter some difficulties when wiping and restoring from scratch because of the sheer range of filesystem layouts and the impossibility of testing Mondo on every single one. If you have trouble, just drop to the command-line and partition/format manually. Then, call mondorestore, select Interactive Mode, and say 'no' when asked if you want Mondo to partition or format your drives for you. You see, even if you have trouble, you still have two hands and most of the tools you need - lvchange, pvcreate, fdisk, mkraid, etc. - to do it manually. After you have prepped and formatted your drives manually (if you have to), just run mondorestore again and say 'no' when asked if you want to prep or format your drives.

What could be easier? Verify that the partition is listed in /etc/fstab and is mounted (e.g. Mondo will take care of everything else.

The files will be archived just like all other files in the live file system. At restore-time, Mondo will take care of the boot sector of /dev/hda1 prior to the restore.

Note: if Windows ME/95/98 is not located on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1, then Mondo will not take care of the boot sector of /dev/hda1. The user will have to boot from a DOS floppy and run SYS C: to correct the Windows boot sector. Windows NT4/2K/XP typically use the NTFS file system, not VFAT.

The user should use '-x /dev/hda1' (or whichever device the Windows partition resides). Mondo will treat the partition as a biggiefile.

Mondo will also add an entry to the mountlist to reflect the size and type of the partition. The user may not edit that partition's size at restore-time (for obvious reasons). Please bear in mind that Mondo was written for Linux users.

If Mondo does not backup or restore your Windows system well, you might want to consider reporting it to the. Mondo Rescue was created in December 1999 by Hugo Rabson as a utility to clone Linux/Windows installations. Norton Ghost would not do the job, and his boss wanted to jump on the Linux bandwagon. So, he wrote a few scripts and shoehorned them into the latest Linux-Mandrake CD. Since that time, Mondo grew into a disaster recovery suite for Linux and Windows.

Mondo forced him to learn about the kernel, its initrd initial ramdisk, modules, library dependencies, disk partitioning, and the myriad differences between the Top 10 Linux distributions. The first formal release was made on February 18th, 2000. Mondo is currently one of the top five Linux backup/restore programs. Mondo has been compared favorably to ArcServe, Arkeia and BRU. Although Mondo lacks the more advanced, enterprise-level features of ArcServe and Arkeia, for workstations and small- to medium-size servers it is ideal because it is small, fast, efficient, stable, comes with source code, and is being actively developed and supported. Since November 2005, Hugo Rabson has tranfered the maintenance of the Mondo Rescue suite to Andree Leidenfrost and Bruno Cornec, both previous developers and packagers of the tool since nearly the begining. Your computer must have: • Intel(R)-compatible CPU (ia32, x86_64/amd64 or ia64) • 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended) • 800MB of hard disk space free • CD writer, tape streamer, NFS share or some way to backup the backups:) It is recommended that your computer have very good airflow.

The backup with Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux will utilize your CPU, CD drive and fixed disk(s) like very few other applications. With a few hours of system backup activity, computers without sufficient airflow may show symptoms such as not burning full CD discs. The solution is a $20 or less additional fan at your local electronics discount store. See Mondo's for details. Mondo requires afio, bzip2, cdrtools/cdrecord/growisofs (may be part of the dvd+rw-tools package), ncurses, newt, isolinux/syslinux, lzo (optional), lzop (optional), mkisofs/genisoimage/xorriso, slang, and a few other packages.

Good Linux distributions provide all these packages. If yours does not then please go to the aforementioned Download page or surf the Net, preferably the website of the distribution you are using.

Mondo's expectations are not unreasonable, either of your Linux distribution or of your kernel. However, if your distribution fails to meet its expectations and you cannot find out how to resolve them, please feel free to e-mail the. Mindi is a vital part of the backup procedure. If you have used Mondo before or if you are in a hurry, skip steps 6.2 and 6.3; go straight to QuickStart.

However, if you have time or if you have been having trouble getting Mondo to work, I would recommend trying out Mindi directly (rather than via Mondo) to see if it can produce a bootable CD on your system. Make sure you are root while doing this, otherwise mindi will fail, now do this.

If you have any problems, please:- • less /var/log/mindi.log • feel free to edit mindi (it's a shell script, btw) to try to fix the problem yourself • contact the if you get stuck. Bash# mondoarchive -Ow9 -gF -I /home cdrecord or wodim will tell you where your CD recorder lives, in SCSI terms, which looks like '0,0,0'. The previous call to mondoarchive tells Mondo to backup everything to a 4x CD-RW drive that has a CD-RW disk in it. (Use -Oc instead of -Ow if you are using CD-R.) Please put the first CD-R(W) in the drive now. You will be prompted to insert CD #2 but you will not be prompted to insert the first disk.

However, if you forget, do not worry: if Mondo fails to write the first (or any) disk, it will offer to retry, abort or fail. Find the speed/compression compromise that best suits your needs. Here maximum (-9) compression level is used. If you are using cron then please consult the chapter that Conor Daly has dedicated to that. Bash# mount nfs://192.168.1.3:/home/nfs -t nfs /mnt/nfs bash# mondoarchive -OVn nfs://192.168.1.3:/home/nfs -g -s 200m bash# umount /mnt/nfs The resultant ISO's can be burned to CD's if you want (which isn't a good idea unless you're a Mondo expert because they'll try to restore over a network by default, which is silly because the archives are on the CD's). Or, you can boot from the Mindi media (mindi.iso) and hit ENTER a few times to restore. Those ISO images can also be used for a PXE restore.

For this to work, please refer to the file README.pxe provided with your mindi package. Mondoarchive is designed to run interactively. That's not strictly true, if you run mondoarchive without the '-g' switch, it will just run. However, there is a problem where media changes are necessary. The user must change the media and tell mondoarchive that the change has been done.

The problem lies in the fact that cron does not allow user interaction with a job. If you schedule a mondoarchive job via cron, you better be sure it needs only one media. In practical terms, this means using tapes or ISOs (if CD-R(W) is your backup medium). However, for tape users, there's always the possibility that the backup will overflow the tape while for CD-R(W) users, there is the added hassle of burning the ISOs in the morning. If your CD_R(W) backup routinely occupies more than one media, this is not for you (use the ISO option and burn the CDs in the morning). This HOWTO addresses the problem by using screen as a wrapper for mondo.

LILO: compare Follow the on-screen instructions. This will compare your backup against your original file system. FYI, no bad archives have been created since May 2000. Having said that, I would still encourage you to run Compare before trusting the backups.

To view the file differences, look at the file '/tmp/changed.txt'. Normal differences include logs and other dynamic system files that changed during the time of the backup process.

If only a few files differ - e.g. Files in /var, files ending in '˜', logs, temporary files, /etc/mtab, /etc/adjtimex - then you know the archives are good. Your logs will change over time, too. Bear in mind that a difference between the backup and the live copy does not indicate a flaw in Mondo. It indicates that you or your filesystem changed the files, so the backup is no longer 100% up to date. However, that is inevitable, as your filesystem changes from moment to moment (which is why you back it up regularly). I hope you don't have to restore from scratch very often.

It's nerve-wracking until you realize that Mondo's restore engine is very reliable. If you find that you cannot make your PC boot from the CD, take heart: the first backup media of each set contains disk images to give you the same functionality as this media (minus the archives, of course) on other boot media.

Remember, your Mondo CD is a fully functional CD-based mini-distribution as well as a recovery CD. You can choose from the following modes. Interactive Restore step-by-step, or restore a subset of the archives. This is the method you should mainly use for your recovery needs. Nuke Wipe your drives and restore everything, automatically and unattended. Warning: This does exactly what is says, so be careful using it. Expert Boot to a shell prompt.

If you want to do anything creative, you should boot into Expert Mode. It's called expert, I think that says it all. If the CD is not found during the initial restore CD boot attempt, reboot the PC a second time prior to reporting failure. Occasional timing errors and hardware/software/system conflicts do occur. Imagine that your hard drives happen to be wiped, deliberately or accidentally. Or, imagine that you want to clone your existing operating system.

In either case, you want to run in Nuke Mode. If you want to wipe everything and restore your whole system from CD, please: • Use the -H option when invoking mondoarchive • Boot from the first Mondo CD • Press RESTORE • Insert the subsequent CD when asked • Watch the screen for errors That's it. The restoration process for tape or NFS users is similarly easy: just boot, answer the on-screen prompts, and wait. Now, should something go wrong, you will be able to examine /tmp/mondorestore.log to see what happened. All is not lost.

You can fdisk and format the partitions yourself, using the tools that come with the CD. You can then run mondorestore in Interactive Mode and say 'no' when asked if you want Mondo to partition/format your drives. If you want to see exactly what Mondo is doing while it is restoring, press to view its logfile, in a virtual console, scrolling past. Interactive Mode is for people who have lost a subset of data from their live file system, or perhaps who have lost some data from their latest backup and want to restore a subset of data from an earlier backup.

If you want to restore only some files or if you do not want to prep/format your drives, then you should boot into Interactive Mode. The interactive mode will provide an 'Editing mountlist screen' that allows you to setup a different disk geometry.

To move up and down between partitions in the 'Editing mountlist screen', use the Up and Down arrows. To move between the main window and the buttons at the bottom, use the Left and Right cursor keys. TAB shifts focus from one screen item to the other in a haphazard fashion, owing to the complexities of the Newt library. If you want to restore selectively, just press and follow the on-screen instructions. You will be asked to say yes/no to a range of questions.

If you are planning to modify your partition table, you would do well to read up on the partition layout and the use of fdisk, it gives you some pointers on how to best lay out partitions. You can find a good guide at the If you want to restore a subset of the backup then: • Boot from the CD • Type.

One of the nice things about Mondo is that it lets you wipe your existing system and restore it in any layout you like (within reason). You can move from non-RAID to RAID,install and utilize additional drives, move from ext2 to ReiserFS, etc., all without risking the loss of data.

If the user excluded a particular partition from backup and specifically excluded it from the mountlist itself using -E then Mondo will insert a small (32MB) partition at restore-time, in order to avoid having to re-jig fstab, the partition table, etc. To do this: • Boot into Expert Mode, then type. Bash# mondorestore • (edit the mountlist using the on-screen editor) If you want to move from ext2 to ReiserFS, you can do it here (so long as your kernel supports ReiserFS). Ditto for XFS, JFS or ext3, ext4.

Mondorestore will try to modify your /etc/fstab to reflect changes you have made to the mountlist. If you are not using LILO, you can still create your own /mnt/RESTORING/etc/lilo.conf and run lilo -r /mnt/RESTORING to configure your boot sectors and Master Boot Record. Mondo (technically, Mindi on behalf of Mondo) creates a file called a mountlist.

This can be found on the ramdisk at /tmp/mountlist.txt; it looks something like this. /dev/hda1/mnt/windowsvfat 6096000 /dev/md0/ reiserfs9123000 /dev/md1/tmp xfs 955000 /dev/md2/usr ext3 8192000 /dev/md3/home xfs 8192000 So long as your /etc/raidtab file is sane, Mondo can automatically partition and format your disks for you, including the RAID devices. Once you have finished editing /tmp/mountlist.txt using mondorestore's built-in editor then you may choose 'OK'. Please note that this will not write anything to your hard disk. You will only reformat or repartition your disks if you say 'Yes' when asked if you want to do those things. Choose your type of backup media.

The live restoration process is very similar to what you'll experience if you type mondorestore with no parameters after booting from a Mondo media. Hit 'OK' when you have inserted the tape/CD. If you generated a tape backup, the tape itself should be enough. If you generated a CD backup, the first CD should be enough. Otherwise, you may need the boot media.

Flag the files and directories you wish to restore. Use the 'More' and 'Less' buttons to open and close subdirectories. Specify the location to restore the files to.

In general, '/' is appropriate. If you do not want to overwrite newer versions of the files you are restoring then specify /tmp/BKP or similar as the restore path. Mondorestore will retrieve configuration information from the media.

(The sample screen is for tape users. CD users will see something different.) Data will be restored to the hard disk - first the regular files, then any big (32MB or greater) files in the restore set. I hope this manual was useful for you. Are the errors from Mindi or Mondo?

Look at /var/log/mondoarchive.log or /var/log/mindi.log (if run alone). Pipe screen errors which relate to the creation of boot disk(s) and or data disk(s) to a text file. See the for details. If you are going to e-mail then please attach that text file (zipped!) and give: • Your kernel version (uname -a) • Your Linux distro's name and version (/etc/distro-release) • Whether your kernel supports initrd and loopfs; it should! (grep -E '^CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP ^CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD' /usr/src/linux/.config • What sort of PC you are using, including hard disk configurations (results of dmidecode, lshw, fdisk -l are useful here) Mondo is freely available under the GPL and you are given it for no charge. When you e-mail the, please bear that in mind. A: It works on Red Hat 7.x/8/9, RHEL 2.1/3/4, Mandrakelinux 8.x/9.x/10.x/200x, Fedora 4/5/6, Debian 3.x, most flavors of SuSE/SLES, some flavors of Slackware, etc.

The more distributions we support, the more moving targets we have to hit. Please bear this in mind when e-mailing the list.:) If you would like to help us by beta-testing Mondo (or Mindi) on your PC then we would be very interested in working with you to work around the eccentricities of your Linux distro. However, rest assured, 90% of the bugs reported are actually symptoms of FooLinux X.Y's unique way of doing things. Please send a copy of /var/log/mondoarchive.log to the along with a description of your distro, your kernel, etc. Oh, and before sending it, please try to read it.

A: Ask Debian's designers why they, unlike every other distro I can find, have included cramfs and other 'goodies' with their kernel. In the meantime, please use '-k FAILSAFE' in your command line when calling Mondo. A: From Sarge onwards, all stock Debian 2.6 kernels should work fine. If you are still using stock Debian 2.4 kernels, FAILSAFE is the way to go.

Of course, if you have compiled your own kernel and experience problems, FAILSAFE is the way to go as well, but this is not really Debian-specific. A: If your tape drive and its firmware and the kernel-level driver support fopen(), fread(), fwrite() and fclose() - standard C library calls - then yes, Mondo should support it. If not, well, you need a refund.:) Mondo plays nicely with any sane, sensible drives. That's most of them, by the way.:) If your drive doesn't play nicely with Mondo then you may try tinkering with setblksize and defblksize using 'mt', or tweaking Mondo's block size by recompiling it with make INTTAPE=4096 or INTTAPE=8192 or something. Other than that, you need a priest or a refund. Also, depending on the tape streamer model, a tape should be inserted in the tape drive before starting mondoarchive, otherwise it may not recognize the drive.

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