The point of mondo rescue is disaster recovery. If you use rsync or other backups to copy data, and the entire server goes down, then you have to re-build the server to the point where you can restore from the rsync drive or whateve other backup device (tape) etc. you do you incrementles with. I use mondo for production. I distribute machines, so when I have the same hardware and software (server) setup I want to duplicate, I build the server the way I want it and do a mondo rescue to make it easy to duplicate from then on. Would work the same way for disaster recovery. If you have a server that works with a large amount of data, you would want to use mondo to backup the server (configuration) and whatever incremental backup to do the data. Mondo is especially usefull for dual-boot machines. It will restore the windows, linux, boot-loader, and all from bootable media. (CD or DVD) If I'm not mistaken, it would also create a boot CD for restoring from a tape drive. B-) On Monday 20 December 2004 11:01 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:46 am, Michael W Cocke wrote:
I have to disagree. It executes very slowly and the arbitrary limit of 50 backup media shows a poorly thought out design, IMHO. If you're trying to do an offline backup (which isn't what the original poster was asking about) look into Dar.
Mike-
I would agree with this and also to use daromizer. I do my backups to DVD+rw and it works quite painlessly.