| 1 | Introduction |
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| 2 | ============ |
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| 4 | MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD. |
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| 6 | This is the Mondo part of MondoRescue. Mondo comprises the mondoarchive and |
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| 7 | mondorescue tools that carry out the actual backups and and restores. The part |
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| 8 | of MondoReccue responsible for creating boot media is called Mindi and |
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| 9 | available in a separate package. |
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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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| 18 | MondoRescue is comprehensive. MondoRescue supports LVM, RAID, ext2, ext3, JFS, |
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| 19 | 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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| 26 | Installation |
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| 27 | ============ |
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| 29 | You can get the latest packages from |
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| 30 | http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2524. |
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| 32 | Please see file 'INSTALL' for instructions about how to build and install |
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| 33 | Mondo. Note that your distribution may already contain MondoRescue, so all you |
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| 34 | may have to do is install the mondo package and you are all set. |
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| 37 | Documentation |
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| 38 | ============= |
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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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| 45 | Further to that, there are manpages for mondoarchive(8) and mondorestore(8). |
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| 48 | Support |
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| 49 | ======= |
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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://developer.berlios.de/wiki/?group_id=2524. |
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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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