Mondo/mindi - the story so far

[Ben Edwards]

> 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

Is personal repositary easy to do, I think i'le just dpkg -i them.

or alternativly I supose one (slightly) easier way to go would be to
run a warty/horty mixed system and just get mondo/mindi from horty
universe (I guess the only apt source from universe I would use is
universe).

> 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.

Was this the ones from the unoficial debian mondo repository - I tried
using this and the mindi-kernel package was not there;(

> *) added "loop" to /etc/modules

BYW douse it actualy have to be added to /etc/modules or is simply
modprobe loop before the backup enough

However the really interesting question was are you using the Ubundu
kernal or the mindi kernel?

> 
> *) 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.

I'me going to have to do the backup straight to DVD - my drive fairly
full.  How would I do this? ( RTFM is a valid answer:) ).
 
> 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.

Great.  At some point I will be restoring to a bigger disk with
different partitioning.  Now that will be fun;)

Ben

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