Re: Backup tool?

Brian McKee wrote:

On 07/08/06, John Dangler <jdangler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:33 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:


"Aron Lopes Petrucci" <aron@xxxxxx> wrote:



Now I'd like to backup it, something like a snapshot. So, if it crashjes, I
can restore it in this position.

I found some backup tools, but they are dinamic tools, wich record data in
some folder. It's not a good idea if the hardware crashes. I'd like
something wich records on CDs.

Can anybody tell me about any util to do this?


,----[ ~/bin/pkgdesc mondo ]
| Package: mondo
| Description: powerful disaster recovery suite
| Mondo is reliable. It backs up your Debian GNU/Linux server or workstation to
| tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic
| data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you
| want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in use by numerous blue-chip
| enterprises and large organizations, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of
| thousands of users.


[snip]
Mondo / Mindi also has alot of problems. I tried for almost 2 months
(unsuccessfully) to get it to work on 2 other distro's. When confronted
directly with some of the more basic functional errors, email responses
were vague and argumentative at best... Unless something has really
changed with this package - don't rely on it.



It isn't the friendliest thing in the world, it won't boot with some
cdroms, and it's confusing at times.
On the other hand, once you get it to make a good image, it will
always restore. In addition, your data is stored in cpio archives,
so it's always recoverable, even if you can't get it to do a bare
metal restore for some reason.



Why does using cpio archives make the data "always recoverable"?


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