[Gllug] Restoring and installing machines

[Rich Walker]

Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> writes:

> John Hearns wrote:
>> Tushars talk also made me think of:
>> 
>> Mondo Rescue
>> http://www.mondorescue.org/
>
> Mondo Rescue is great, but can be a little fragile, because it relies on
> features in the kernel that you don't need to run the machine normally, so
> it's possible to upgrade your kernel, make a new mondo image, and produce
> something with all your data on it, but no ability to boot.

It also doesn't handle large backups at all well. The advice I was given
included "oh, that's an old machine" and "it's not intended to back up
all your data".

I mean, it was only about 350GB?

:->

cheers, Rich.

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