source: MondoRescue/branches/3.1/mondo/README@ 3147

Last change on this file since 3147 was 2696, checked in by Bruno Cornec, 13 years ago
  • Adds preliminary support for hpacucli. Needs test
  • Fix a compilation issue due to bad fatal_error call (no param allowed)
  • Fix some HTML syntax issues in the docs page + link to Wiki articles
  • Boot size pushed to 20MB
  • A bit more precise for error msg from PBDI
  • Exits if the protocol used is not recognized (error with -n fs:// typo)
  • Adds support for r8169 net driver
  • Fix a cast issue
  • Precise a test case to avoid ambiguity
  • Die and related functions placed before any other code as used early, and ash doesn't support function declaration. So will solve #446 by exiting mindi before doing anything weird in it.
  • Fix #445 with another technical solution to avoid vg with similar names to b wrongly excluded (vgroot and vgroot-san e.g.) (Michael Shapiro)
  • Fix a bug on exclusion of path with common content (/home and /path/home e.g.) which was handled correctly only in a certain order (John Pearson <johnp_at_gtagalenco.com.au>)
  • mount-media function is now placed in libmondo-devices.c as used by more programs.
  • Avoids calling mount_media when it's not mandatory (change the way mondorestore was working up to now but could solve some bugs reported)
  • Add xhci support to mindi.
  • Rewrite Xen kernel support to use TryToFindKernelPath systematically.
  • mindi now copies also the /lib/firmware content in order to have it for drivers needing it (bnx2 reported)
  • Push MAX_STR_LEN to 512 to allow supporting more exclude dir (2.2.10 and dyn allocation is the way to go there)
  • Add virtio driver to mindi
  • Initialize extra_cdrom_params in any case tp avoid passing null to cdrecord later on
  • Also escapes white spaces in gen_aux_list to avoid issues in getfacl call
  • Adds multiple missing drivers to mindi (mega_sr, ide_gd_mod, pata_jmicron, cp210x, dca, raid6_pq, xor async_tx, async_memcpy, async_xor)
  • Fix #434 by really testing thet udevd is not running already (chucky)
  • Adds support of pata_sil680 driver
  • Fix again #412 !! by removing calls to tee which voids the return value of the previous command
  • The way grub.unsupported was called for opensuse 11.2 was wrong. It should be done bfore calling grub-install which also exists. And tested for existence. Now this should fix #412.
  • Try to provide a workaround in code to the #401 (over-allocation of space due to rounding errors)
  • Fix a bug when using ACLs and file with spaces in their names by adding double quotes in getfacl invocation (Tom Mortell tomm_at_dslextreme.com). Also adding the same quotes on the touch commands made earlier.
  • Points to the current latest presentation instead of the old one
  • mondo-ref-card added to the docs web page
  • Add the mondoarchive reference card (Lester Wade)
  • Change useless comments for more useful ones
  • mindi is now able to handle compressed kernel with .gz or .bz2 suffix (case of OpenSuSE 11.2)
  • Improves logging for external binary
  • Improve Xen kernel detection and avoid false detection (Michael Shapiro)
  • Updated P2V doc from Lester Wade (lester.wade_at_hp.com)

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1Introduction
2============
3
4MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD.
5
6This is the Mondo part of MondoRescue. Mondo comprises the mondoarchive and
7mondorescue tools that carry out the actual backups and and restores. The part
8of MondoReccue responsible for creating boot media is called Mindi and
9available in a separate package.
10
11MondoRescue is reliable. It backs up your server or workstation to tape, CD-R,
12CD-RW, DVD, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss,
13you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from
14bare metal if necessary. MondoRescue is in use by numerous blue-chip
15enterprises and large organizations, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of
16thousands of users.
17
18MondoRescue is comprehensive. MondoRescue supports LVM, RAID, ext2, ext3, ext4,
19JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, and can support additional file systems easily. It
20supports adjustments in disk geometry, including migration from non-RAID to
21RAID. MondoRescue runs on all major Linux distributions and FreeBSD and is
22getting better all the time. You may even use it to backup non-Linux
23partitions, such as NTFS.
24
25
26Installation
27============
28
29You can get the latest packages from
30ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
31
32Please see file 'INSTALL' for instructions about how to build and install
33Mondo. Note that your distribution may already contain MondoRescue, so all you
34may have to do is install the mondo package and you are all set.
35
36
37Documentation
38=============
39
40Various documentation is available on the MondoRescue website at
41http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/docs.html. This documentation may also be
42available locally under /usr/share/doc/mondo-<version> or similar (or under
43/usr/local).
44
45Further to that, there are manpages for mondoarchive(8) and mondorestore(8).
46
47
48Support
49=======
50
51Apart from the above-mentioned documentation, there is a Wiki with growing
52contents at the following URL: http://trac.mondorescue.org
53
54Also, there is a mailing list mondo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Please go to
55https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel for further
56information and the opportunity to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list.
57
58License
59=======
60
61This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
62it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
63the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
64(at your option) any later version.
65
66This license was given to MondoRescue by the original author Hugo Rabson, and is
67continued by its current maintainer Bruno Cornec.
68
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