Re: [SLE] Haven't quite figured out backup to CD from Linux command line
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
On Sunday 24 November 2002 1:35 pm, KMcLauchlan wrote:
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" That is because those links point to the "RPM" files. I think the webserver has "autodetected" using the rpm extension, and "got it wrong" - as ".rpm" audio files are "RealPlayer Media" files iirc. So it gets confused :o)
Just right click and "save link target as" and it should work for you :o)
On Sunday 24 November 2002 14:35, KMcLauchlan wrote:
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:
Hold down the shift key when you click the link. Then it will download instead of trying to read an RPM file..
"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 don't either.. :-))
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.
Not really needed. The docs are included with the rpms, and are pretty comprehensive.
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.
Although it is created as a bootable CD, that isn't necessary. You can so a "live" restore of the files/directories that you need. -- Powered by SuSE 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.0.4 Kmail 1.4.3 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://home.t-online.de/~jroark 8:22pm up 2:55, 3 users, load average: 1.90, 1.84, 1.74
The 02.11.24 at 14:35, KMcLauchlan wrote:
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.
A month ago I was experimenting creating compressed CDroms as backups. I have a script that more or less works, but it's not perfect. For example, it will not span media and it needs lots of free disk space, for starters. The trick is using this call: mkzftree --parallelism 3 /home /homecopycompressed which creates a duplicated tree of /home, with all files compressed (same names, atributes, etc). With this tree as source, we can create the image: mkisofs -z -R -quiet -graft-points\ -P "Not Published, private backup" \ -p "Your name if you like (preparer_id)" \ -V "Backup of Linux home dated... " \ -o $ISOIMAGE /homecopycompressed #\ # _usr_src_packages_packages/=/usr/src/packages/ \ # patches/=/var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.3/ And then burn it using your preffered software. This compressed CD needs for reading kernel 2.4.16 or later, I think, with "File systems/ Transparent decompression extension" enabled, which Suse's kernels have by default. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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