Can this software fully recover your system from a USB connected hard drive? I assume you create a boot CD when (after) you create a backup. Would you then just boot from that (with you USB drive connected and turned on) and Mondo would show you your backup(s) on that drive, from which you would do your disaster recovery? Thanks, Greg Wallace
On Sun, 1 May 2005 14:58, Greg Wallace wrote:
Can this software fully recover your system from a USB connected hard drive? I assume you create a boot CD when (after) you create a backup. Would you then just boot from that (with you USB drive connected and turned on) and Mondo would show you your backup(s) on that drive, from which you would do your disaster recovery?
I have only used Mondo to backup to a DVD, which creates a bootable DVD. It backs up all the data onto the DVD in a compressed format. You can tell it to exclude certain drives/partitions from the command line. When you use the DVD to restore a system to a new disk it will create the partitions and restore the system data. You can then reboot the computer and have a working system again. What I suggest is that you only use Mondo to backup the system data. All user data should be backed up using a normal backup program like kdar as this data is constantly changing. Then in the event of a disk failure you would use Mondo to recreate your system and then use your backup program to restore your other data with. Mondo is not really a backup program, but a disaster recovery program and there are differences between the two types of programs. You only need to run Mondo every time you make major changes to your system configuration. On the other hand you will backup your user data (documents, drawings, MP3's, etc) on a daily basis to other media. -- Regards, Graham Smith
Would you use mondo to backup a dual boot system before installing a new larger drive? Would it be significantly faster than mounting the second drive setting it up and copying over? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
Graham Smith wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2005 14:58, Greg Wallace wrote:
I have only used Mondo to backup to a DVD, which creates a bootable DVD. It backs up all the data onto the DVD in a compressed format. You can tell it to exclude certain drives/partitions from the command line.
... Did anyone succeed to make a bootable CD/DVD on a smp (hypertreading) machine with a SATA-disk ? First I tried mindi, but my kernel (updated standard 9.2) is too big to fit the floppies (?). When I tried the mindi-kernel, I could boot from the test-CD, but the process hung on starting/mounting (don't exactly remember) the disk. Then I tried mondoarchive, which also complained about the floppies, but also that mkisofs could not find isolinux.bin. The resulting iso is 34kb big. TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.
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