Changeset 3147 in MondoRescue for branches/3.1/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8

Timestamp:

Jun 19, 2013, 8:34:46 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• First pass on svn merge -r 2935:3146 ../3.0

File:

• branches/3.1/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8 (modified) (6 diffs)

branches/3.1/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8

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 and mondoarchive will try to do its best to support it.
 Other protocols are available such as sshfs for fuse SSH based filesystem
-mount, with the same syntax e.g. 'sshfs://user@192.168.1.3:/home/nfs'
+mount, with the same syntax e.g. 'sshfs://user@192.168.1.3:/home/nfs' and
+smbfs (aka cifs) for SaMBa or Windows based filesystem mount.
 
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@@ -157 +158 @@
 
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-.BI "\-E " "\*(lqpath|...\*(rq"
-Exclude path(s) from backup. The paths should be separated with a pipe and surrounded by quotes.
+.BI "\-E " "\*(lqdir|...\*(rq"
+Exclude dir(s) from backup. The dirs should be separated with a pipe and surrounded by quotes.
 This is the prefered and recommended option when doing partial archiving.
 Note that mondo automatically excludes removable media (/mnt/floppy,
@@ -171 +172 @@
 You may also specify full disk device to this option as with \-E
 \*(lq/dev/sda|/dev/cciss/c0d0\*(rq
-
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-.BI "\-I " "\*(lqpath|...\*(rq"
-Include paths(s) in backup. The paths should be separated with a pipe and surrounded by quotes.
+N.B.: If for example you have a disk /dev/mapper/vgsan-lvdir mounted on a /mnt mountpoint
+excluding the /dev/mapper/vgsan-lvdir device prevents mondorestore to touch the LVM structure 
+of this device at restore time (no pv|vg|lvcreate will occur).
+However, if you exclude the mount point /mnt, the LVM structure will be re-created at restore time. 
+ALL DATA WILL THEN BE LOST ON THIS DEVICE.  Use what is required for your configuration.
+
+.TP
+.BI "\-I " "\*(lqdir|...\*(rq"
+Include dirs(s) in backup. The dirs should be separated with a pipe and surrounded by quotes.
 This option is mainly used to perform tests
 in order to reduce the time taken by the archiving operation.
-The default backup path is \*(lq/\*(rq but you may specify alternatives,
+The default backup dir is \*(lq/\*(rq but you may specify alternatives,
 e.g. \-I \*(lq/home|/etc\*(rq to override that.
 You may also specify full disk device to this option as with \-I
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+.BI "\-F "
+Do not retry when a command failed but just exits. This is useful for an 
+automated mode launched from cron where you want to avoid filling your logs 
+due to an answer which is impossible to give.
+
+.TP
+.BI "\-G "
+Use gzip, the standard and quicker Linux compression engine, instead of bzip2.
+
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 .BI "\-H "
 When you boot from the tape/CD, your hard drive will be wiped and the archives
@@ -279 +295 @@
 
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-.BI "\-G "
-Use gzip, the standard and quicker Linux compression engine, instead of bzip2.
+.BI "\-M " "max-size"
+Gives the maximum size of a biggie file (by default 64 MB). The value should 
+be given in kB. Example use \-M 128000 to have biggie being more than 128 MB.
 
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 .BI "\-R "
-EXPERIMENTAL. Do not use in mission-critical environments. Star is an
-alternative to afio. Mondo now supports POSIX ACLs and extended
-attributes, so \-R is essentially redundant for now.
+Star is an alternative to afio. Can be useful for distributions considering
+that afio is not free enough due to its age and old licenses (wrongly in our
+opinion). Star can be used to have a better support of sparse file compared to
+afio. Also star supports natively POSIX ACLs, where as afio requires a special 
+additional handlling.
 
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