Ed Brown wrote:
Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:
Am I missing something? It does not require any reboot to make backups
with Mondo (at least as far as I remember)...
Mondo documentation suggests you "Shut down all possible applications",
especially databases, "Or if applicable, boot to single user mode." I
don't see where "if applicable" is defined.
<http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto/backup.html#BACKUP-RECOMMANDATIONS>
Tim, the O.P., planned to restore data from other backups, so that's not
really an issue. But shutting down "all possible applications" sounds
like essentially making the system unavailable, likely what the Tim was
trying to avoid.
there was me mentally berating others for not reading all the question.
Volatile data aside, it's trivial (and maybe doesn't need to be done at
all).
Deployment tools such as systemimager might avoid the need altogether:
my technique for fixing broken windows is to treat it like a new
deployment, boot the deployment tool (systemrescuecd) and install the
appropriate golden image. Then boot, set the host name and it's done.
If this is all you need, then a golden master plus regular package list
and copy of /etc is about it. To restore, redeploy the applicable
master, revise installed packages using rhe package list.
Before backing up /etc, I run sfdisk to dump the partition table to a
file in /etc. If needed, it could be used to repartition during the
redeployment above and drive mke2fs. If you use LVM that has to be taken
into account too.
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