MondoRescue (was Pre-install Environment)

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Thu Aug 25 19:46:33 UTC 2005


Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:33:52PM +0000, spchen at juno.com wrote:
> 
>>Thank you all for your responses to my question. My purpose is to
>>restore the system as it is later (in case some one has erased
>>my system).
> 
> 
> One of the options is to use Mondo Rescue (www.mondorescue.org).  This
> package can generate ISO images or burn directly to CD or DVD.  You
> could simply burn the ISOs and put them on another server.  If you lose
> the original server, burn the ISOs and do the restore.  Mondo is
> designed to allow you to change the environment during the restore too -
> e.g. go to differing disk sizes, convert to lvm, etc.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 

Ed,

I went looking around for Mondo rescue for RHEL ES 4 (or Fedora Core 4) 
and didn't find it. Do you use it for either type of system, and if so, 
which version do you use? Or, did you compile from sources?

Bill




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