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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue Apr 13 20:37:53 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)</li>
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- <li><em>subject</em>: [ale] Fingers crossed, bare iron restore</li>
It sounds like you did a great bit of work to prep for this and it seems
to have all paid off. WooHoo!
ALE talk ??
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 19:39, BruceG wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been asking the list about backups and restores for quite a while, and
> finally tried it out on my desktop. My desktop is dual boot. It runs Windows
> ME on a 6 gig disk (/dev/hda) and SuSE 9.0 Pro on a 40 gig disk (/dev/hdb).
> hdb1 is swap and hdb2 is tons 'o fun. Googling got me to Hugo Rabson and
> Mondo Rescue.
>
> I went to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mondorescue.org";>http://www.mondorescue.org</a> and downloaded Mondo and Mindi RPMs
> for SuSE 9.0 The development version has more day-to-day work going on, and
> seems to have good support in the mailing list, so I installed the
> development version.
>
> The site gives a good list of prerequisites. SuSE 9.0 was pretty good. I
> did have to go here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike/";>http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike/</a> for notes on running
> mondo on the SuSE platform. I also had to download a "fixed" newt RPM and
> make a symlink (documented on the website).
>
> After installing, I ran mondoarchive and backed up my dual-boot system to
> tape. You have an option to leave specific directories out of the backup, or
> to backup only specific directories. My work laptop runs Win2K and I backed
> it up (8.2 gigs) to a Samba share on my SuSE desktop. I decided not to back
> that up to tape (hoping to not lose both my desktop and my laptop at the same
> time. I may buy another tape to cover it, but work does the OS and
> application installs on fried laptops, so I may just back up my user data).
>
> I selected to do a complete backup, with the exception of /home/bgriffis/
> Backups (my thinkpad stuff). A quick 8 hours later, I had a tape. Oh -
> another thing: my desktop is only a PII 266 w/ 384Meg of RAM. It might have
> been quicker with more CPU. Mondo was taking a good 70% of my CPU, and I was
> pretty much maxed out. Mondorescue did not pick up my tapes mount point, but
> gives you the option of telling it where it is. I just filled in "/dev/ht0"
> to tell Mondo where the tapedrive was. I felt like I was back in Computer
> Operator land of years gone by (I'm sure a great many of you have done time
> in the tape library!).
>
> Mondo writes out an image file, /root/images/mindi.iso. This is an image
> of YOUR current running system, YOUR kernel, and YOUR modules. My desktop
> doesn't have a CD burner, so I copied it to my son's Toshiba laptop and
> burned it to CD. Mondo also writes out a boot, a root and several data floppy
> images. I could not boot from the floppy boot image, but it could have been a
> faulty floppy disk. I didn't chase it down.
>
> I booted my PC using the mindi.iso CD. I entered mondorestore to get the
> gui screen, and selected a partial restore. I restored my home directory to
> make sure it worked. Success!!
>
> Now for the scary part. A few days after I decided to do a "nuke." That
> checks your partitions, formats your drives (wipes everything!!!) and
> restores. You can change your filesystem if you select expert restore. I'm no
> expert, so just went with a "nuke."
>
> All sorts of scary warnings came up, I held my breath, crossed my fingers
> and hit enter (with said crossed fingers). I was able to restore from tape! I
> booted the PC, and got an error message "unable to boot, insert floppy, ... -
> your standard hosed MBR message. I booted from my WinME rescue floppy (make
> sure to make rescue floppies BEFORE nuking!!!) and did a "sys c:" to restore
> the MBR.
>
> Mondo also had problems with grub, or I possibly hosed that part as well.
> Mondo has an option to restore grub, and I tentatively typed away the
> following magical commands:
> bash: mount-me
> bash: chroot /mnt/RESTORING
> bash: grub-install '(hd0)'
> bash: exit
> bash: unmount-me
>
> Those fingers got crossed one more time for good luck, and I rebooted. My
> grub option list came up, and I booted into Windows to make sure the kid's
> games still worked. Success!!! I then rebooted, and went into Linux. SuSE 9.0
> Pro came up, looking just like it did when I started the backup Friday night.
> Samba was working, files were where I thought they should be. Everything just
> simply worked.
>
> I know on the list we discussed tape versus disk versus CD. I'm backing up
> about 6 gigs, and a WHOLE lot more if I decide to include my laptop image and
> my wife's laptop image. I decided to go with tape for now, as it is better
> than no backups at all (I've been there way too many times). Mondo does
> support backup/restore from CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, Tape, NFS, and disk
> (hmmm. USB 2.0 attached disk sounds like a good option!). As my budget
> improves, I'll probably opt for a hefty external disk drive.
>
> For dual-boot people, the Win9X worked fine (well, except I messed up
> somewhere and had to do the "sys c:" thing). I can't say anything about NTFS
> and Win2K / WinXP support. I haven't tried it.
>
> Notes: read the Mondo manuals for both 1.6 and 1.7. Read the mondo HTML guide
> (that has a LOT of information) BEFORE restoring. (I read AFTER restoring).
> Subscribe to the mailing list. There are people using it on lots of different
> distributions - but it pays to check first.
>
> Part one of the backup question is working. Now to figure out what to do with
> my laptops. Hmmm, go dual-boot and use Mondorescue's NFS option? For now I'll
> just back up specific directories while I watch how the NTFS folks make out.
> Bruce
>
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