Why use Mondorescue for LinuxMondorescue is free and has some incredibly powerful options for making disaster recovery backups. It creates Bootable CDs that can easily recover (or recover a subset of) the entire system, all one has to do is insert the CD and reboot the server. Mondorescue also creates the archives in a format such that it is tolerant of corrupted regions of the CD (you don't lose everything - only the files on the affected region). This is in contrast to other common UNIX backup methods which stream a single archive file to the backup media. If you have initial problems with Mondorescue, stick with it as it is a strange work of genius and can make complicated backup problems with Linux very simple. (Mondorescue will also stream to tape and backup onto other disks) Using the Mondorescue mailing list can also help with various queries.
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Where to get Mondorescue for Linux
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Compiling and Installing Mondorescue for Linux(this is using Mondorescue 1.4x) Before installing Mondorescue, it requires that certain packages be available on the system. Do "rpm -q" or a "which" on the following to make sure you have them. If not, download and install. The latest versions should be linked from the Mondorescue download page.
If newt gives an error on installing, go to the line the compiler says the error is on and put an extra ">" to fix this up. To burn DVDs on Linux, you may need the latest dvdrecord for UNIX/Linux from http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/dvdrtools/. If compiling up a version, check out the ./DEFAULTS/Defaults.linux file and change the install to /usr if required. Also note the tricks given below for getting cdrecord to recognise IDE/Atapi CD and DVD devices.
Mindi then Mondorescue 1.4x
Mindi then Mondorescue 1.5x beta version (changing over time)
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Examples of using Mondorescue for backups
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As root: Script sequence for general backupNote: For DVD-RAM backups, always do a mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdd on the DVD-RAM disks to make sure they are empty. Thus if the backup fails, this will be obvious - and not confused by having an older backup already
Linux system backup onto DVD-RAM disk
Weblogs backup onto 2x DVD-RAM disks
webstats html backup onto DVD-RAM disk
CCP14 HTML and non-mirroredfiles backup onto DVD-RAM disk
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