Anyone get mondo-rescue to work?

slydini · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 5:57 am Post subject: Anyone get mondo-rescue to work?

I just emerged the mondo-rescue-2.03. One of the first things you are supposed to do is create a test CD. So I did:

Minox · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:10 am Post subject:

Hi,
emergel dosfstools. There are in it.
You can also use http://packages.gentoo.org to search for packages.
Kind regards,
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groovin · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 8:35 am Post subject:

also make sure you have the right stuff in your kernel like vfat, loopfs, and a few other things i cant remember right now =)

slydini · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

That's weird because I thought I emerged dosfstools last night. I just checked to make sure and what da ya know it never got emerged. So thanks for pointing that out. I had everything compiled in already.

I thought you could use grub on the mindi test disk. It is asking if I would like to use LILO (instead of syslinux). I chose "no" here and I got:

Minox · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

Do you use FAILSAFE option with mondo? It's necessary for debian and gentoo systems.
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slydini · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

FAILSAFE option? I haven't even gotten that far yet. I am just trying to get the test cd portion of thist to work. Were you able to get a test cd made without error?

Once I realized that mindi was just a script I just modified the script until I got it to get past some of the errors. Here is what I had to modify:

Minox · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject:

I've never tested mindi alone. But i were successfull by using mondoarchive (part of mondo-rescue). With it i have created a hopefully working bootable image of my gentoo server.
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slydini · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

How long did it take you to do the backup and how much data did you backup? Also could you post the options you used?

I'll be honest with you I have just gone through hell trying to recover a Digital Unix server disk at work and another employee made it worse by wiping out the root partition of the disk (lost the /etc). Our backup tapes were not complete and did not have all the files needed for full recovery. I had to reconfigure the whole thing from scratch and not knowing the system that well it took me over a week to get it back up and running. So the lesson learned is this:

A backup is not a backup until you successfully restored from it at least once.

So I am now looking for a way to create several images of various machines including some older NT 4.0 servers onto a single 40 gig Firelite USB drive. Then restore the images to some test drives to see if infact the images are good. I really don't need incremental backups since the systems I am working on never change. It's all flight simulation software that never gets upgraded or anything. Do you think mondo will be able work in this way? I will probably try the other options like partimage and g4u. I am currently testing the SystemRescue cd and so far I cannot even boot from that cd.

As far as my gentoo system I would like to have the reiser4 support on the boot cd. Soon I'll be switching over to the reiser4 filesystem.
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piffle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 98

MagicAlex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 98

I'm having a different sort of problem that seems to have more to do with mindi than mondo. First I tried it with the default ebuild and it got a Fatal error while making the boot disk. Checking the log it appears that it couldn't find a certain file, and checking for that file I found it except that it wasn't zipped. I thought zipping it manually would help, but the next time it looked for a different file so I guess that's not the answer. By using ~86 and upgrading I can get past that part, but I still get the same error. I was sorting out problems with my CD burner awhile ago so I'm not even sure if it makes proper backups, but I'm running it again right now so I'll let you know.

piffle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 98

Just as an update. I got mondoarchive to work with a stripped down, monolithic (gentoo) kernel. By this I mean, could I boot onto the rescue CD and the rescue menu came up. I put it in compare mode and it reprted all the differences between the backed up files and my live filesystem (mostly /var/log/ and some /etc stuff since the backup was quite recent)

Stieltje · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

this monolithic kernel sounds good, the failsafe kernel used is quite worthless, it does not find any network interfaces, so a restore via nfs is just false marketing as it is now..

tell me how you did it please ?
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tomaw · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 429 Location: UK

Does anyone have the trick to install syslinux with gcc 3.4? The suggestion in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53826 don't seem to work for me.

I always get: