Can I restorea full server from ISO images stored on a a USB HDD just by burning and booting from 1st DVD?

[Salim Karam]

I have done a full backup of our Oracle Linux test server using MondoArchive 2.2.9.6 to plan a backup of the real production server, in order to make a full clone to a remote site to have an identical standby server. I chose the Hard Disk option, and wrote DVD images on it with average compression. The backup took 27 DVD images (there is a lot of data) which were stored on the external 1TB USB drive. So can I use these images for a restore operation without having to burn them all to actual DVDs, as they will take a tremendous amount of time? If not, is there a recommended way of backing up the server for this purpose, like a mixture of DVD & HD backup? Our structure is the following: the root '/' folder contains the OS (72GB RAID1) and a storage array mounted on /d01 (1TB RAID10) holds the Oracle eBS application and database files. I appreciate your help in giving me the best scenario possible, especially that the backup size was almost 130 GB with average compression.

Thanks and regards, Salim Karam

[Salim Karam]

Dear Bruno,

I know that this issue doesn't seem to be urgent, but I really do appreciate some help. Thank you in advance.

Regards, Salim

[Bruno Cornec]

My general advise is that mondo is for Disaster Recovery of systems. Not really a backup solution. So you should probably use it for all FS excluding your /d01 and backed it up separately, maybe with RMAN.

Now, you can use mondo with an external HDD to store your ISO. In that case you can even create a bigger size of ISO if you don't want to burn them.

Beware of #433. If you want packages for that beta version that will be useful for you, let me know your distribution/version/arch.

You should rather use the mondo mailing list for this type of request.