Backup Utilities

nrunge · 01-27-2004, 12:16 PM

I am having a hard time finding any good backup utilities for Linux. I want to backup to a cd and then be able to boot from that CD for a restore. The only one I found was mondo but I cant get that working under Debian and it is not officially supported yet.

ash4stuff · 01-27-2004, 01:51 PM

i dont know any of these, that was a quick search in sourceforge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkcdrec/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dump/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdbk/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdbkup/

you can use partimage for backing up a whole partition (more or less like ghost)
>> apt-get install partimage

and burn them regurarly on a dvd. You can google for nice scripts that you can cron that can run on their own

Glock Shooter · 01-27-2004, 03:24 PM

http://www.mondorescue.org

nrunge · 01-28-2004, 11:37 AM

I looked into mondo. But I run Debian. I can get the mondo and mindi packages via apt but the mindi-kernel is not available in the repositories and the .deb file links are broken on the site.

Glock Shooter · 01-29-2004, 03:38 PM

Then why not just compile from source?

goozlq · 10-20-2004, 12:08 PM

Mindi works now at my Debian Sarge. I just did the following:

cd /etc
cp modules modules.conf

Do not forget to do this again when changes are made to modules. Instead of a cp you can make a symbolic link.

Hope you will be helped with this.....

gooz

goozlq · 10-20-2004, 04:13 PM

After a reboot I discovered that my "cp" method caused a lot of errors at boot time. Sorry!

What really did work for my Debian system (primary install with Knoppix 3.6) was to run soundcardconfig as root. It seems to create a correct modules.conf file that will not cause any errors during boot.