# Mondo Rescue News

## Latest News

2006-02-02 Mondo Rescue rsync server available

In our always increasing set of services :-) I'd like to announce the availability of an rsync mirror service for mondo-rescue. Try rsync rsync.mondorescue.org::

2006-02-01 Mondo Rescue ftp server available

Things are progressing. I've gathered all the packages that were originally on http://www.mondorescue.org and also added Mike's SuSE RPMs + all the latest packages I've produced and put them on a new ftp server accessible at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org

You may have issues to access to it yet, as I've done a DNS refresh this night and propagation could not be made everywhere now. FYI:

$ host ftp.mondorescue.org
ftp.mondorescue.org has address 213.30.161.23

The tree is:

level one distribution
level two version number
level three the packages

Feel free to send me (by private mail) packages that you have and that are not in the repository, so that I can add them.

Thanks to HP and especially the HP/Intel Solution Center to help me hosting the project. Next step will be the Web site.

## Older News

2005-12-24 I think that it's time to promote our revisions to a newer version, as a proof of increased stability, and result of lots of cleanup and improvements, even if some small known bugs remain (and other could always appear). So here are mindi 1.06 / mondo 2.06 aka Christmas Release :-)

Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org :
mandrake/10.1/mindi-1.06-266.10.1mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.1/mondo-2.06-266.10.1mdk.i386.rpm
rhel/3/mindi-1.06-266.rhel3.i386.rpm
rhel/3/mondo-2.06-266.rhel3.i386.rpm
rhel/4/mindi-1.06-266.rhel4.i386.rpm
rhel/4/mondo-2.06-266.rhel4.i386.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mindi-1.06-266.2006.0mdk.i586.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mondo-2.06-266.2006.0mdk.i586.rpm
fedora/4/mindi-1.06-266.fc4.i386.rpm
fedora/4/mondo-2.06-266.fc4.i386.rpm
redhat/73/mindi-1.06-266.rh73.i386.rpm
redhat/73/mondo-2.06-266.rh73.i386.rpm
sles/9/mindi-1.06-266.sles9.i386.rpm
sles/9/mondo-2.06-266.sles9.i386.rpm
So more distros supported and built.
I've used them for a restore of a failed server recently (PXE mode) so they should be working correctly for most of the cases (including now people not using RPMs)

I'll off till begining of next year, so I wish you all the best for this new year 2006 coming, and hope you'll find mondorescue as useful as usual !

Changelogs are following:

MONDO CHANGES
v2.06 (2005-12-23)
- better error handling of failed commands/mindi (Andree Leidenfrost)
- fix compiler warnings (Andree Leidenfrost)
- -p improvements for NFS/PXE/ISO modes (Bruno Cornec)
- support of default route and netmask for PXE/NFS (Bruno Cornec)
- fix for restoring mondo backups on md-raid systems (Philippe De
Muyter)
- remove excessive 'cat' commands (Philippe De Muyter)
- fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De
Muyter)
- now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images
(Andree Leidenfrost)
- Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
- fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim
Feinstein)
- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's
filebrowser (Andree Leidenfrost)
- remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
(Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar
ball) (Bruno Cornec)
- disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
- remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
- exports MONDO_LIB (Bruno Cornec)
- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva
2006.0, mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode
(Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
- iso-prefix should be read in iso mode even when -H not given (Stan
Benoit)
- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements
(Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
MINDI CHANGES
1.06 (2005-12-23)
- mindi manpage added (Andree Leidenfrost)
- clean up remaining mount points, mindi.err at the end (Wolfgang
Rosenauer)
- fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order
(Wolfgang Rosenauer)
- new busybox.net version used for better PXE support (Bruno Cornec)
- USB keyboard support (Bruno Cornec)
- -p should now work with ISO/PXE/NFS modes (Bruno Cornec)
- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
(Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar
ball) (Bruno Cornec)
- install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout
(Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
- use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed
(Bruno Cornec)
- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva
2006.0, mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
- VMPlayer support
- Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements
(Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec
- New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe)
(Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
- mindi-kernel added to SVN (Bruno Cornec)

## Older News

2005-11-22 Following recent discussion here, it has been decided to increase version numbers of mondo and mindi to avoid confusion.

So I can now announce the availability of the latest mondo and mindi which can be downloadable from http://mondorescue.berlios.de

Look also there at the Wiki and the docs. Fill bugs and feature requests. We are working with Hugo on the migration of the rest of the content and the old Website, domain name in parallel, but it wil take some time to be finished.

Changes are:
v2.05 (Bruno Cornec - -p options works better for NFS cases
- ia64 is now working for rhel3
- delivery process to BerliOS improved
- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new
default name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment,
you have to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe)
- Mandrake 2005 support
- NFS patches (Yann Aubert )
- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H
(this is an unattended mode)
1.05 (2005-11-19)
- Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not
found" error
(Andree Leidenfrost)
- NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve
(Andree Leidenfrost)
- IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3
(Bruno Cornec)
- add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE
(Philippe De Muyter)
- Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices
(Philippe De Muyter)

2005-09-28 Creation of the Berlios SVN repository to take over the non-working one missing since more than one year. Integration of the first patches waiting.

## Oldest News

look at these pages for old News concerning the project

Hugo's diary preserved (2001-2003)