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| 10 | <title>Mondo Rescue</title>
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| 11 | </articleinfo>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para></para>
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| 14 | <informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
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| 15 | <row>
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| 16 | <entry>
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| 17 | Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO
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| 18 | </entry>
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| 19 | </row>
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| 20 | <row>
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| 21 | <entry>
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| 22 | <ulink url="overview.html">Prev</ulink>
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| 23 | </entry>
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| 24 | <entry>
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| 25 | Chapter 3. Overview
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| 26 | </entry>
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| 27 | <entry>
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| 28 | <ulink url="mindilinux.html">Next</ulink>
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| 29 | </entry>
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| 30 | </row>
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| 31 | </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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| 33 | <sect1 id="MONDORESCU"><title>3.1. Mondo Rescue</title>
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| 34 | <para>Mondo Rescue backs up your file system to CD, tape, NFS
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| 35 | (archives stored remotely) or ISO's (archives stored locally).
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| 36 | Mondo uses afio as the backup engine; afio is a well-respected
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| 37 | replacement for tar. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you
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| 38 | may restore some or all of your system, even if your hard drives
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| 39 | are now blank. Mondo Rescue can do a lot of other cool
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| 40 | things:</para>
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| 41 | <itemizedlist>
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| 42 | <listitem>
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| 43 | <para>You can use Mondo to clone an installation of Linux. Just
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| 44 | backup the crucial stuff and exclude /home, /var/log, etc.</para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>You can backup a non-RAID file system and restore it as RAID
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| 48 | including the root partition (if your kernel supports that).</para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>You can backup a system running on one format and restore as
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| 52 | another format.</para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>You can restructure your partitions, e.g. shrink/enlarge,
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| 56 | reassign devices, add hard drives, etc, before you partition and
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| 57 | format your drives. Mondo will restore your data and amend
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| 58 | /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab accordingly.</para>
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| 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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| 61 | <para>You can backup Linux/Windows systems, including the boot
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| 62 | sectors. Mondo will make everything right at restore-time.
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| 63 | (However, do run "Scandisk" when you first boot into Windows, just
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| 64 | in case.)</para>
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| 65 | </listitem>
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| 66 | <listitem>
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| 67 | <para>You can use your Mondo backup CD to verify the integrity of
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| 68 | your computer.</para>
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| 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | </itemizedlist>
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| 71 | <para>Mondo's principal virtue is that it protects you from the
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| 72 | problems that can arise when you reinstall completely from scratch.
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| 73 | If you want to wipe and restore your system every year just as a
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| 74 | matter of 'good practice', Mondo is not for you. However, if you
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| 75 | want to get up and running again in a hurry after someone breaks
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| 76 | into your computer and wipes it (or if you accidentally wipe it
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| 77 | yourself) then Mondo is definitely for you. It will permit you to
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| 78 | roll back to a known-good installation in a very short period of
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| 79 | time, sometimes as little as twenty minutes. Even if you backup
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| 80 | large amounts of data to tape daily and do not want to add yet
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| 81 | another backup regime, please consider backing up the core
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| 82 | filesystem (i.e. everything but the directories containing your
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| 83 | huge database and your prizewinning novel) every month or so, just
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| 84 | in case. You will be glad you did.</para>
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| 85 | <para>What is Mondo not?</para>
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| 86 | <para>Mondo is not an everyday backup program. It is not designed
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| 87 | to replace tar, afio, kbackup, etc. Mondo is designed to make it
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| 88 | possible to recover from scratch if necessary. Tar and afio offer a
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| 89 | quick, convenient way to backup small sets of files, sometimes to
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| 90 | removable media.</para>
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| 91 | <para></para>
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| 92 | <para></para>
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| 94 | <row>
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| 95 | <entry>
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| 96 | <ulink url="overview.html">Prev</ulink>
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| 99 | <ulink url="index.html">Home</ulink>
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| 100 | </entry>
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| 102 | <ulink url="mindilinux.html">Next</ulink>
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| 104 | </row>
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| 106 | <entry>
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| 107 | Overview
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| 108 | </entry>
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| 109 | <entry>
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| 110 | <ulink url="overview.html">Up</ulink>
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| 111 | </entry>
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| 112 | <entry>
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| 113 | Mindi Linux
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| 114 | </entry>
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| 115 | </row>
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| 116 | </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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