| 1 | Introduction
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| 2 | ============
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| 3 |
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| 4 | MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | This is the Mindi part of MondoRescue. Mindi is responsible for creating boot
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| 7 | media used by MondoRescue. The part of MondoReccue responsible carrying out the
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| 8 | actual backups and restores is called Mondo and available as a separate
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| 9 | package.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | MondoRescue is reliable. It backs up your server or workstation to tape, CD-R,
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| 12 | CD-RW, DVD, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss,
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| 13 | you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from
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| 14 | bare metal if necessary. MondoRescue is in use by numerous blue-chip
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| 15 | enterprises and large organizations, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of
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| 16 | thousands of users.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | MondoRescue is comprehensive. MondoRescue supports LVM, RAID, ext2, ext3, ext4,
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| 19 | JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, and can support additional file systems easily. It
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| 20 | supports adjustments in disk geometry, including migration from non-RAID to
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| 21 | RAID. MondoRescue runs on all major Linux distributions and FreeBSD and is
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| 22 | getting better all the time. You may even use it to backup non-Linux
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| 23 | partitions, such as NTFS.
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| 24 |
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| 25 |
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| 26 | Installation
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| 27 | ============
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| 28 |
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| 29 | You can get the latest packages from
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| 30 | ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
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| 31 |
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| 32 | Please see file 'INSTALL' for instructions about how to build and install
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| 33 | Mindi. Note that your distribution may already contain MondoRescue, so all you
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| 34 | may have to do is install the mindi package and you are all set.
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| 35 |
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Documentation
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| 38 | =============
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| 39 |
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| 40 | Various documentation is available on the MondoRescue website at
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| 41 | http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/docs.html. This documentation may also be
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| 42 | available locally under /usr/share/doc/mondo-<version> or similar (or under
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| 43 | /usr/local).
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| 44 |
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| 45 | Further to that, there is a manpage for mindi(8).
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| 46 |
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| 47 |
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| 48 | Support
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| 49 | =======
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| 50 |
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| 51 | Apart from the above-mentioned documentation, there is a Wiki with growing
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| 52 | contents at the following URL: http://trac.mondorescue.org
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Also, there is a mailing list mondo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Please go to
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| 55 | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel for further
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| 56 | information and the opportunity to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list.
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