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I'm backing up some system folders in order to protect the system in a backup process. As not all the folders change in this process I'm only backing up the important ones.

This is the command I'm using now: mondoarchive -ONV -I "/bin /boot /etc /lib /lib64 /root /sbin /usr /var/lib" -p hostname -S $mpoint/storage/hostname/iso -T $mpoint/storage/hostname/temp -n nfs://192.168.36.31:/linux/images

The problem is when I restore the system. I need to get folders like /etc replaced, to delete any new file modify/added by the update process, but instead of that, I only get the replacement of the existing files.

I really don't want to backup the whole disk/partition as there is a bunch of user stuff and things that are not need to be update, I have checked the manuals and search for any information on the page, but I found nothing like this.

I know this could be a good feature for mondo, whenever you restore a folder you can choose if you want to replace the folder or just restore the files inside the folders.

I found a bug in /usr/sbin/mindi 2.0.7.9 rev 2858

The line 2901 of /usr/sbin/mindi should be deleted It contains: "fi", that fi should not exist there.

This is the proof:

# mindi --findkernel
OK, I used my initiative and found that
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 is probably your kernel.
# echo $?
255

It did found the kernel but it did not return it.

If i deleted the fi of line 2901, it finds the kernel AND it returns it :

# mindi --findkernel
OK, I used my initiative and found that
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 is probably your kernel.
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5
# echo $?
0

Context : Mindi v2.0.7.8

I succeeded to mondoarchive a Ubuntu 11.04 on a mounted USB hard disk

(mondoarchive -Oi -G -9 -d /media/4FD0-1A9E/backup-ubuntu11.04 ...)

But when I tried to mondoarchive a Ubuntu 11.04 on the same external USB hard disk, but not mounted (mondoarchive -OU -d/dev/sdb -G ....)

It failed with:

Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. Fatal error... Failed to generate boot+data disks

I got in mondoarchive.log:

Kernel size = 4428 K Ramdisk free = 3290 K Sorry, your kernel is too big for your image FATAL ERROR...

SOLUTION

I increased BOOT_SIZE (BOOT_SIZE=36864 instead of BOOT_SIZE=32768) in /usr/sbin/mindi and it solved the problem, I succeeded to mondoarchive Ubuntu 11.04 on the USB hard disk.