Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO

Hugo Rabson

Mikael Hultgren

Stan Benoit ("Troff")

Randy Delfs

Cafeole

Bryan J. Smith

$Date: 2003/04/06 00:48:04 $

Mondo Rescue is a Disaster Recovery Solution which allows you to effortlessly backup and interactively restore Linux, Windows and other supported filesystem partitions to/from CD-R/RW media, tape, NFS, ... and Mindi Linux provides the bootable emergency restore CD/floppy set which Mondo uses at boot-time.

Table of Contents

1. About this HOWTO

 

1.1. Purpose / Scope of this Guide

1.2. Feedback

1.3. Acknowledgments and Thanks

1.4. Version

2. QuickStart

3. Overview

 

3.1. Mondo Rescue

3.2. Mindi Linux

3.3. Linux Backup

3.4. Windows Backup

3.5. Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux History

4. System Requirements

 

4.1. Hardware Requirements

4.2. Linux Kernel Support

4.3. Linux Kernel Modules

4.4. Related Linux Packages

5. Installation

 

5.1. Mindi

5.2. Mondo

6. Testing Mindi

 

6.1. Making a Test CD

6.2. Writing the Test CD image

7. Backup

 

7.1. Trying

7.2. Backup Command and Options

8. Compare

9. Restore

 

9.1. Overview

9.2. Restore-Related Tips

10. Troubleshooting/FAQ

 

10.1. Overview

10.2. General

10.3. Kernel/Linux/Booting

10.4. Installation

10.5. Hardware Related

10.6. Backup

10.7. Compare

10.8. Restore

10.9. Hugo

List of Examples

2-1. A test backup