[Gllug] Restoring and installing machines

[John Winters]

> 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".

The answer which I use to that one is to use Mondo back up my *system* and
DLT tape to back up my *data*.  I consider one Mondo run a month
sufficient to be sure of being able re-create a bootable system in the
event of a catastrophic hardware failure.  Then a tape backup at least
once a week gives me the means to recover my data.

This approach also means that it's more realistic to do a test restore of
the mondo CDs.  I have done this more than once.

John

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