Mondoarchive is a backup solution for *nix systems. It creates .iso files with cd or dvd sizes containing the entire image of disk (like ghost for Windows). It's an extremely powerful solution 'cause, when burned, images are bootable and autorestoring. In this way it's possible to recover the system installation without the reinstallation of all sofware and drivers, for example in case of disk crash.
Moreover, the startup/config script allow to choose where to create image files: on disk, on usb devices, on samba/nfs shares or on ftp.
For any other information, please visit developers site: http://www.mondorescue.org/
The procedure below is optimized for backupping Trixbox versions 2.4 and 2.6 and Asterisk-based systems.
Installation
As root user, do:
cd ~
wget http://www.dbtek.it/Repository/install-mondo.tgz (or from http://www.astusers.org/install-mondo.tgz)
tar -xzvf install-mondo.tgz
chmod +x install-mondo.sh
./install-mondo.sh
This script downloads all dependencies, install mondo backup program and create a custom configuration for trixbox.
At the installation end, it's necessary to reboot the system.
Next we have to edit the /etc/cron.weekly/mondobackup.cron file to activate the desired backup options and to configure the program. Every instruction needed are written directly into this config file.
To test if the procedure is working as we want: /etc/cron.weekly/mondobackup.cron
WARNING: if there are errors on mounting samba file systems (Netowrk Sharing on Microsoft OS) and yours username or password used for accessing shares contains symbols you must write a ' before and after it.
Restore a backup
To restore a backup we can choose from diffrent ways:
Nuke (formats the destination disk and automatically restores all)
Interactive
Expert
It's also possible to try to restore only the bootloader (if the disk didn't crash):
• Boot from backup CD/DVD and choose Expert Mode
• Type: mondorestore --mbr
• Choose option 28 and then
bash# mount-me
bash# chroot /mnt/RESTORING
bash# lilo or grub-install ’(hd0)’
bash# exit
bash# unmount-me
Nuke Restore
As said, this option completely overwrites the system hard disk, automatically restoring the backup
• Boot from first backsup CD/DVD
• Choose RESTORE
• When asked, insert next CD/DVD (if exists)
• Check for errors
If there are errors, check /tmp/mondorestore.log file.
If you wanna see what the program is doing, press
Interactive Restore
The Interactive Mode allow to restore a subset of files from backup or we can use it to restore all files without formatting hard drive.
The interactive restore give the “Editing mountlist screen” that allow to set diffrent sidk geometries. To move through the partitions use up and down arrow keys. To move on buttons use left and right arrow keys.
To restore a subset of files, the procedure is:
• Boot from first backup CD/DVD
• Type interactive
• Answer to questions:
Do you want to partition your devices? no
Do you want to format them? no
Do you want to restore everything? no
Do you want to restore something? yes
Which path do you want to restore? /mydata (for example)
Do you want to run LILO to setup your boot sectors? Yes
Expert Restore
To manually restore:
• Boot from first backup CD/DVD
• Type expert
• Type mondorestore
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