Changeset 1063 in MondoRescue for branches/stable/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8

Timestamp:

Jan 20, 2007, 11:37:55 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• USB device support for mindi (Tested and Working)
• Begining of USB device support for mondo (maybe not even compiling)
• FindDistroFailsafe build process support
• makemount list doesn't issue weird messages anymore around LVM

File:

• branches/stable/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8 (modified) (4 diffs)

branches/stable/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8

@@ -135 +135 @@
 .B For experienced users only.
 
+.TP
+.BI "-U "
+Use a generic USB device as backup device. Use this if you want to write
+your backup to a USB key or USB disk, which will be make bootable.
+The USB device should be attached to the system ir order for this to work.
+.B WARNING: All the data on the related devices will be removed.
+
 .SH MAJOR OPTIONS
 .TP 13
@@ -170 +177 @@
 .TP
 .BI "-d " "dev|dir"
-Specify the backup device (CD/tape) or directory (NFS/ISO). For CD-R[W] drives,
+Specify the backup device (CD/tape/USB) or directory (NFS/ISO). For CD-R[W] drives,
 this is the SCSI node where the drive may be found, e.g. '0,1,0'. For tape
-users, this is the tape streamers /dev entry, e.g. '/dev/st0'. For ISO users,
+users, this is the tape streamers /dev entry, e.g. '/dev/st0'. For USB users,
+this is the device name of your key or external disk. For ISO users,
 this is the directory where the ISO images are stored. For NFS users, this is
 the directory within the NFS mount where the backups are stored. The default
@@ -240 +248 @@
 .BI "-F "
 Do not offer to write boot+data floppy disk images to 3.5-inch floppy disks.
-The images will remain in /root/images/mindi until your next backup run,
+The images will remain in /var/cache/mindi until your next backup run,
 however.
 
@@ -412 +420 @@
 .I "mondoarchive -Ow 4 -I \*(lq/home /etc\*(rq"
 
+.BI USB:
+Backup to your USB key, using gzip compression:
+.br
+.I "mondoarchive -OU -d /dev/sda -G"
+
 .BI NFS:
 Backup to an NFS mount: