Mondo Rescue is an open source, free disaster recovery and backup utility that allows
you to easily create complete system (Linux or Windows) Clone/Backup ISO
Images to CD, DVD,Tape, USB devices, Hard
Disk, and NFS. And can be used to quickly
restore or redeploy working image into other systems, in the event of data
loss, you will be able to restore as much as entire system data from backup
media.
Mondo program is available freely for
download and released under GPL (GNU Public License) and has been
tested on a large number of Linux distributions.
This article
describes Mondo installation and usage of Mondo Tools to backup of your entire systems. The Mondo Rescue is a Disaster Recovery and Backup Solutions for System Administrators to take full backup of their Linux and Windows file system partitions intoCD/
The latest Mondo Rescue packages (current version of Mondo is 3.0.3-1) can be obtained from the MondoRescue Repository. Use wget
command to download and add repository under your system. The Mondo repository will install suitable binary software
packages such as afio, buffer, mindi, mindi-busybox, mondo and mondo-doc for your distribution, if they are
available.
Download the MondoRescue repository under /etc/yum.repos.d/
as file name mondorescue.repo.
Please download correct repository for your Linux OS distribution version.
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/6/i386/mondorescue.repo
Once you
successfully added repository, do yum
to install latest Mondo tool.
# yum install --nogpgcheck mondo
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#yum install dvd+rw-tools
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After
installing Mondo, Run mondoarchive command as root user. Then follow screenshots that shows how to create an ISO based backup
media of your full system.
# mondoarchive
Welcome to Mondo Rescue
Please enter the full path name to the directory for your ISO
Images. For example:/mnt/backup/
Select Type of compression.
For example: bzip, gzip or lzo.
Select the
maximum compression option.
Please enter
how large you want each ISO image in MB (Megabytes).
This should be less than or equal to the size of the CD-R(W)s
(i.e. 700) and for DVDs (i.e. 4480).
Please give a
name of your ISO image filename. For example: tecmint1 to obtain tecmint-[1-9]*.iso files.
Please add the filesystems to backup (separated by |). The default filesystem
is / means full
backup.
Please exclude
the filesystem that you dont want to backup
(separated by |). For
example: /tmp
and /proc are always
excluded or if you want full backup of your system, just hit enter.
Please enter
your temporary directory path or select default one.
Please enter
your scratch directory path or select default one.
If you would
like to backup extended attributes. Just hit enter.
If you want to Verify your backup, after mondo
has created them. Click Yes.
If youre using
stable standalone Linux Kernel, click Yes or if you using other Kernel say
Gentoo
or Debain
hit No.
Click Yes to proceed further.
Creating
a catalog of / filesystem.
Dividing
filelist into sets.
Calling MINDI to create boot+data disk.
Backing up filesytem. It may take a couple
of hours, please be patient.
Backing
up big files.
Running
mkisofs
to make ISO Image.
Verifying ISO Image tarballs.
Verifying ISO Image Big files.
Finally, Mondo Archive has completed. Please hit Enter to back to the shell prompt.
If youve
selected default backup path, you will see an ISO image under /var/cache/mondo/, that you
can burnt into a CD/DVD for later restore.
To restore all
files automatically, boot the system with Mondo ISO Image and at boot prompt type nuke to restore files. Here is the
detailed video that demonstrates how to restore files automatically from CD/DVD media.