On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 06:43:55 +0100 "Mike" <bcomber@freezer-burn.org> wrote:
On Saturday 23 November 2002 21:05, KMcLauchlan wrote:
[ snip kevin's question about command-line backup to CD-R ]
I'll make a suggestion. There is a program out there that does exactly what you are trying to do. It's called Mondo, and it works quite well. Check the bottom of this message for the SuSE specific rpms and updates. I've used it for quite a while, and I haven't had any problems.
For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://home.t-online.de/~jroark
I visited the above URL with mozilla.
From that site, I clicked the links for a couple of the "updates" that it said were required for running Mondo on SuSE 8.0. (I'm not sure I'd load a replacement for Syslinux anyway, without a bit more thought and advice from other sources...)
The results were... um... other than satisfactory. For example, the "Syslinux", "slang" and "newt" links gave me a completely black mozilla window, with this in the status/progress field: "Starting Plugin for type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" I don't enable much junk on my browsers, so my quest rather stopped at that point. I hit the link to the author's site, which was fine, but he had several links to FAQs and other newbie info (a couple in Russia, if I recall), all of which timed out. Browsing to my usual haunts, as well as some nearly random google hits has been working without a hitch, today, so the above-described behavior is a little suspicious, somehow, given that the peculiar stuff is all concentrated around the one area... "mondo" Thanks, though. I'll try another day if I don't get it going with cdrecord. I wasn't really looking for a bootable backup, just a /home repository that would survive some HD rearranging and maybe a new install of 8.1. /kevin