[Fwd: Re: [SLE] backup/reinstall]

Randall I have generated an email to the creator of the Mondo backup utility and am waiting for his answers regarding this issue. Will let you know once I receive his reply. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [SLE] backup/reinstall Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:04:31 -0600 From: Ted Hilts Reply-To: thilts@help-for-you.com Organization: help-for-you To: Randall R Schulz References: <412FFBFE.1040105@help-for-you.com> <200408272047.13081.rschulz@sonic.net> Randall Thnks for your input. Mondo is an impressive product. Mondo web site does not specifically indicate that it can recreate the system from the backup onto another machine with a different chip set. I checked the site out and it looks like I will have to email this question to them. But on the surface it does not appear to be the product I read about. Randall R Schulz wrote:

Ted,

On Friday 27 August 2004 20:29, Ted Hilts wrote:

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Picture this: System crashes, CPU board needs to be replaced, can't get original chip set.

I read somewhere of a backup utility that will create a backup and that backup can be placed on a different computer with a different chip set and that different computer will be automatically configured to run the original system

Does anyone have any information on this backup utility?

Are you thinking of Mondo Rescue? If so, check out http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/. That's meant for to deal with disk crashes, I think.

And unless you've configured your system very narrowly to run on only the hardware present in your now-defunct mainboard, you'll probably have no trouble starting up from the same hard drives with a new board. In fact,

I went through the exact same thing just a few weeks ago, and it it went of without a hitch. The system auto-detected the new mainboard hardware and notified me about it upon the first login, giving me the chance to let it perform whatever system-level reconfiguration it required.

Randall Schulz