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2006-03-20 Mondo 2.0.7 / Mindi 1.0.7 are out

I'm happy to announce the availability of the latest and greatest version of mondo 2.0.7 / mindi 1.0.7. Version numbers have changed of format to be more in line with what is done generally (x.y.z)

Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org :

mandrake/10.1/mindi-1.0.7-447.101mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.1/mondo-2.0.7-447.101mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.2/mindi-1.0.7-447.102mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.2/mondo-2.0.7-447.102mdk.i386.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mindi-1.0.7-447.20060mdk.i386.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mondo-2.0.7-447.20060mdk.i386.rpm
src/mindi-1.0.7-r447.tgz
src/mondo-2.0.7-r447.tgz

Other distributions will follow asap (should be able to produce soon redhat 7.3, fedora core 4, and only after rhel3/4 and sles9) due to the change in the virtual machines I have to do (now using qemu + more tools to generate RPMs)

The focus on this version has been more around the new website and documentation, and a bit less on code. So some persistant bugs are still not corrected (some dvd burning issues and dm/lvm2 support mainly) and will be hopefully in 2.0.8.

MONDO CHANGES

v2.07 (2006-02-23)
- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats. (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package. (Andree Leidenfrost)
- use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
- Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
- mondo now uses /usr/share for the restore-scripts (Bruno Cornec)
- rpmlint cleanups (Bruno Cornec)
- no shared librairies and no X11 anymore (were useless) (Bruno Cornec)
- files > 2GB are now really supported (Andree Leidenfrost)
- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
- mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also Debian bug #352323.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
- /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)

MINDI CHANGES

1.07 (2006-02-23)
- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec)
- init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase, start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS) (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Changed module 'nfsacl' to 'nfs_acl' (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Mindi/DiskSize is gone (Bruno Cornec)
- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS)
- CHANGES renamed also in install.sh now (Bruno Cornec)
- rpmlint cleanups
- Get mindi to look for analyze-my-lvm in it's library directory MINDI_LIB (See also Debian bug #351446.)
- mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
- try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy (Andree Leidenfrost)
- busybox mount should be called with -o ro for PXE (Make RHEL 3 works in PXE with a 2.6 failsafe kernel now available) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option) (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec)
- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now supports x86_64 natively (Bruno Cornec)
- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec)

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)

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

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Hugo's diary preserved (2001-2003)