My mondo adventure

[Anish Mathew]

 Even i have adopted this method and using it very efficiently.
 
 Anish
Yahoo
 
----- Original Message ----
From: Alberto <xagonzalezm at gmail.com>
To: buznakka at yahoo.com; General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tue Oct  4 15:58:29 2005
Subject: Re: My mondo adventure

I tried with mondo and left it!

I prefert to make a lvm snapshot from the original system to make a
consistent backup, make a tar.gz from that snapshot /. Boot any other
machine with PXE, create VGs, LVs, make FS, copy tar.gz from NFS and
uncompress tar.gz and install grub.

It is pretty fast and works like a charm!!



On 10/3/05, Sherrett O. Walker <buznakka at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, all.
>
> I'm cross-posting this message.
>
> Thanks to some help from a couple of souls on redhat-list at redhat.com,
> I've been able to duplicate my RedHat ES3 installation onto a duplicate
> machine. I wanted to post my experience and am open to any answers to
> my (sometimes implied) questions.
>
> So, I decided that I was going to use Mondo to archive one of my ES3
> machines and clone it on a different machine. My machine doesn't have a
> CD-W drive, so I backed up to my hard drive, used scp to copy the files
> to my laptop, and burned them from there. I put CD 1 in the drive and
> rebooted.
>
> I had a few... hiccups (is the correct spelling of this really
> hiccough... dictionary.com <http://dictionary.com> says both are correct:
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hiccough ) along the way. The
> restoration told me that my hard drive had a gap, and that a total of
> 9KB weren't assigned on two different partitions. Because of this (I
> think), I was unable to do a nuke restoration, and had to go with
> interactive. I filled the 9KB and kept on my merry way, exchanging
> disks along the way, and rebooted when it was all said and done. But
> the BIOS told be I had no boot sector (?).
>
> So, this took some digging. I used my Red Hat disk 1 and went to the
> rescue functionality and typed linux rescue at the command prompt. I
> did 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (location of my installation) and
> /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda3 (location of /boot). I rebooted, only to
> receive a message that the boot process couldn't find the /home
> filesystem. Some research led me to modify the /etc/mtab file to match
> the source machine's, and then, I got a reboot. It WORKED!
>
> Questions / Comments:
>
> RTFM
> Do it again.
> Do it step by step as you work
> Stop if you get stuck (or don't know your boot partition) and figure out
> what you've done
> Keep a log
> Why doesn't mondo just copy all of the boot stuff/ grub.conf file and
> all that?
> Why doesn't mondo copy the mtab file?
>
> Thanks for the help, and I wish you well in your mondo adventures.
>
> SOW
>
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