On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Peter Vogel wrote:What products are out there that are an idiot-proof (i.e. safe from me) way of backing up a whole drive and restoring to a new one in case of disk failure?
How about mondo? This is OK if you're restoring to the same machine you backed up from. It can write CDR's or DVD's or tapes or NFS.
http://www.mondorescue.org
I was interested so...
mikel$ apt-cache show mondo
Package: mondo
Architecture: alpha
Version: 1.41.1-1
Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.2.4-4), libnewt0, slang1 (>> 1.4.4-7.1), mindi (>= 0.58), afio, buffer, gawk, cdrecord, lzop
Filename: pool/main/m/mondo/mondo_1.41.1-1_alpha.deb
Description: System to backup your filesystem to CDs
Mondo uses afio as the backup engine.
Mondo creates ISO images of your data to make a full backup of your system. It also makes the CDs to autorun and gives you several options to restore your system. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you may restore some or all of your system from those CDs, even if your hard drives are now blank.
mikel$ sudo apt-get install mondo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: mondo: Depends: mindi (>= 0.58) but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages
OK bugger, whats this mindi ???
mikel$ apt-cache show mindi mikel$ apt-cache search mindi
Nothing.
I have here an Alpha running Debian stable. I have never had a package that wont install like the above. What causes the above???
Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
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