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| 37 | <A NAME="MONDORESCUE"></A>3.1. Mondo Rescue</H1>
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| 39 | Mondo Rescue backs up your file system to CD, tape, NFS (archives
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| 40 | stored remotely) or ISO's (archives stored locally). Mondo uses afio
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| 41 | as the backup engine; afio is a well-respected replacement for tar.
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| 42 | In the event of catastrophic data loss, you may restore some or all
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| 43 | of your system, even if your hard drives are now blank. Mondo Rescue
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| 44 | can do a lot of other cool things:</P>
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| 48 | You can use Mondo to clone an installation of Linux. Just backup the
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| 49 | crucial stuff and exclude /home, /var/log, etc.</P>
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| 52 | You can backup a non-RAID file system and restore it as RAID
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| 53 | including the root partition (if your kernel supports that).</P>
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| 56 | You can backup a system running on one format and restore as another format.</P>
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| 59 | You can restructure your partitions, e.g. shrink/enlarge, reassign
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| 60 | devices, add hard drives, etc, before you partition and format your
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| 61 | drives. Mondo will restore your data and amend /etc/lilo.conf and
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| 62 | /etc/fstab accordingly.</P>
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| 65 | You can backup Linux/Windows systems, including the boot sectors.
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| 66 | Mondo will make everything right at restore-time. (However, do run
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| 67 | "Scandisk" when you first boot into Windows, just in case.)</P>
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| 70 | You can use your Mondo backup CD to verify the integrity of your computer.</P>
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| 73 | Mondo's principal virtue is that it protects you from the problems
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| 74 | that can arise when you reinstall completely from scratch. If you
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| 75 | want to wipe and restore your system every year just as a matter of
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| 76 | 'good practice', Mondo is not for you. However, if you want to get up
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| 77 | and running again in a hurry after someone breaks into your computer
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| 78 | and wipes it (or if you accidentally wipe it yourself) then Mondo is
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| 79 | definitely for you. It will permit you to roll back to a known-good
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| 80 | installation in a very short period of time, sometimes as little as
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| 81 | twenty minutes. Even if you backup large amounts of data to tape
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| 82 | daily and do not want to add yet another backup regime, please
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| 83 | consider backing up the core filesystem (i.e. everything but the
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| 84 | directories containing your huge database and your prizewinning
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| 85 | novel) every month or so, just in case. You will be glad you did.</P>
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| 87 | <B>What is Mondo not?</B></P>
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| 89 | Mondo is not an everyday backup program. It is not designed to
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| 90 | replace tar, afio, kbackup, etc. Mondo is designed to make it
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| 91 | possible to recover from scratch if necessary. Tar and afio offer a
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| 92 | quick, convenient way to backup small sets of files, sometimes to
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| 93 | removable media.</P>
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