Mondo/mindi - the story so far

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:28:31 +0000, Ben Edwards (lists)
<lists at videonetwork.org> wrote:
> I've had a rather unsuccessful note trying to get Mondo working. I was
> trying to get it working partly to do a HowTo for Ubuntu Linux and also
> to use it myself. I am running on the Warty Warthog release of Ubuntu
> and using the unofficial Mondo Debian packages. This is what I did/got.
> Any pointers would be great. i am currently setting up IT at a community
> center and would love to use mondo.

What I did to generate a mondo backup of my home PC (running Warty):

*) installed Mondo/Mindi using Hoary's Universe files
 
>From http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/
downloaded these packages:
 mindi_1.03.1-3_i386.deb 
 mindi-busybox_1.00-1_i386.deb
 mindi-kernel_2.4.27-1_i386.deb
 mindi-partimagehack_0.6.2-3_i386.deb 
 mondo_2.03.1-2_i386.deb

and then added them to my own little personal apt repository.  Then
installed the package mondo using synaptic from that repository.  (but
it could have been done directly using dpkg; but since I have
repository on that machine, might as well use it).  In an earlier
test, I also did a similar install  using Debian's unstable deb
packages, and that worked as well.

*) added "loop" to /etc/modules

*) ran this command:
    mondoarchive -O -i -s 650m -d /mnt/mondo/ -3 -E "/mnt/mondo "
    

This created a full backup of my machine's mounted filesystems on 6
iso files in that /mnt/mondo directory. Once I wrote these iso to
CD-RW disks, I had a self-bootable backup of the machine.  I could
have saved a step and have mondoarchive directly writes to the CD-RWs 
while doing the backup (and I'll do this in the near future), but for
now I wanted the iso files on disk as a initial test.

While I haven't yet tried  a full restore yet, the backup CDs boot
properly, and I can read the files off them. So it seems to work.