[1051] | 1 | Mondo for Debian
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| 2 | ================
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| 4 |
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| 5 | IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT
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| 7 | This is not the official Debian package of mondo but the upstream
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| 8 | version. Please to not report errors to the Debian Bug Tracking
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[1581] | 9 | System but to <the mailing list>. Thank you.
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[1051] | 10 |
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| 11 | IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT
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| 13 |
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| 14 | This text contains hints, workarounds and explanations for using mondo on a
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| 15 | Debian system.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | NTFS Windows Installations not bootable after restore
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| 18 | -----------------------------------------------------
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| 19 |
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| 20 | After a restore, NTFS Windows installations may not be bootable. Rather an
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| 21 | error message "A disk read error occurred. Press Xtrl+Alt+Del to restart." is
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| 22 | displayed.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | A fix for this is to use gparted (and possibly gtparted but no other
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| 25 | partitioning tool) resize the NTFS filesystem to that it fills the entire
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| 26 | partition it lives in. The error appears to only happen for NTFS filesystems
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| 27 | that are smaller than the partition they live in.
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| 28 |
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Segmentation Fault when using newt interface (option '-g')
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| 31 | ----------------------------------------------------------
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| 32 |
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| 33 | mondoarchive may segfault when the '-g' option is specified. The workaround is
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| 34 | to install package 'libfribidi0'. Please see Debian bug report #290722 for
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| 35 | further details of the the underlying issue.
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| 36 |
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| 37 |
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| 38 | Boot Images in /root/images
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| 39 | ---------------------------
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| 40 |
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| 41 | MondoRescue does not currently allow for influencing where the boot images it
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| 42 | creates are stored. They will always end up under /root/images. This can be a
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| 43 | problem on installations where the partition that holds /root is small.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | A workaround is to create a symbolic link to a different location with more
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| 46 | space. Example:
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| 47 |
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| 48 | /root/images -> /home/mondorescue/images
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| 50 |
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| 51 | CD Streaming
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| 52 | ------------
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| 53 |
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| 54 | The CD streaming feature of mondoarchive (option '-C') is EXPERIMENTAL which
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| 55 | is what the manpage states. In fact, it appears to be rather broken. Some of
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| 56 | the issues are fixed in this package: selecting the burn speed should work,
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| 57 | it won't segfault during a mondoarchvie run. However, restoring from multiple
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| 58 | CDs still doesn't seem to work but hangs towards the end of the first CD.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | If you want to experiment with this feature, it might help to keep the
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| 61 | following in mind:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | - Use blank CDs only. If you use CDRWs (which is recommended for
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| 64 | environmentally and monetarian reasons by the author of this text) make sure
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| 65 | they are blank when throwing them at mondoarchive in streaming mode.
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| 66 | - Don't make mistakes when feeding media to mondoarchive in streaming mode. It
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| 67 | will choke and the backup will have to be restarted.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | Having said that, streaming is certainly a useful feature. I'll work on it as
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| 70 | time permits. If your time does permit, I am receptive to patches (and so is
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| 71 | upstream).
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| 72 |
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| 73 |
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| 74 | Image Archiving: (V)FAT versus NTFS
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| 75 | -----------------------------------
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| 76 |
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| 77 | If you have a (V)FAT partition please mount it to get it backed up by
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| 78 | mondoarchive and restored by mondo. Using the '-x' option will not work.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | For NTFS, '-x' is the way to go.
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| 81 |
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| 82 |
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| 83 | "Too many open files" in log
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| 84 | ----------------------------
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| 85 |
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| 86 | You may get entries in the log similar to this one:
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| 87 |
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| 88 | getfacl: /home/andree/shed/kernel/kernel-source-2.4.26/include/config/paride/pf: Too many open files
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| 89 |
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| 90 | If you do, increase the number of allowed open file descriptors for the user
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| 91 | session. The default value for open file descriptors in Debian is 1024. To
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| 92 | increase this value, if you run bash (and potentially other shells), use
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| 93 | 'ulimit -n 2048' to double this.
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| 94 |
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| 95 |
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| 96 | Using the File-Browser for Partial Restore
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| 97 | ------------------------------------------
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| 98 |
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| 99 | When using mondorestore to selectively restore files, the 'Editing filelist'
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| 100 | window will only list a limited, hardcoded number of files. This number is
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| 101 | defined by define 'ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM' in include 'my-stuff.h'. This value is
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| 102 | currently set to 500 in the upstream source and has been increased to 2000 for
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| 103 | the Debian package. Changing this value requires a recompile of the package.
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| 104 |
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| 105 | A workaround for this shortcoming is to restore a complete directory tree to a
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| 106 | temporary location, delete all unwanted files and directories, and move the
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| 107 | remainder to its final destination.
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| 108 |
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| 109 |
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| 110 | -- Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf@bigpond.net.au> Sun, 8 Jan 2005 15:20:05 +1100
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