11.5 Mondo Backup
Mondo can be used to backup to DVD. We illustrate a recipe here.
First test things out with:
This will generate a bootable DVD that also backs up /etc.
You can boot from this DVD and then recover files. Alternatively, and
more typically, you can recover files
running mondorestore. This starts up a basic interface to
select files to be recovered.
All of the operation of mondoarchive is controlled by
command line options. The -O option says to do a backup,
and the -V says to verify the backup. The -r
option indicates that a DVD is to be used as the backup media, with
/dev/dvd as the device specified with the -d
option. The -9 requests the highest level of compression,
-g requests the GUI mode, and -F removes a
unnecessary request to write a boot floppy.
We can now backup our whole /home and /etc
directories. You can specify what to backup on the command line:
And you can refine this by specifying those directories you do not want backed up:
Note that the backups will start to take some time - likely to be several hours depending on how much is to be backed up.
One strategy might be to create several backups, each of a specific area of about the size that will fit onto the DVD (compressed). Then cycle through these backup regions, always keeping two backups (the current and the previous).
It seems like one can not have a very long -E list - it segment faults! Somewhere greater than 285.
The log file for modoarchive is
/var/log/mondo-archive.log.
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