On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:28PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > Luke Kilborn wrote: > >Mondo resuce is very good for a disaster recovery backup, and i would > >suggest you use it for that situation. > > > >For a day to day backup, try using tar or cpio. > > > Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Luke, and apologies for the > delay in acknowledging the reply. > > It seems as though people are unanimous that Mondo is very good for > disaster recovery, so I decided to try to get it going as at least a > first step.
Hopefully noteworthy: one of the devteam, Andree Leidenfrost comes along to SLUG meetings now and then. > I did make what it afterwards said was a successful backup, > but I realised as it was happening that I'd used the options unwisely. > I'd intended to create a single .iso which I'd afterwards burn to a dvd, > but, in the result, I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried > to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible! > suggested somewhere, but couldn't boot with a dvd burnt from it. > Tomorrow, I'll start again, but try to make sure I produce only one .iso. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
