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What is Mondo Rescue ?
Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (RedHat, RHEL, SuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo).
It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid.
You need it to be safe.
Authors
Bruno Cornec: lead development, maintenance, rpm packaging, web site, documentation
Andree Leidenfrost: co-development, maintenance, Official Debian packager
Original Author
Hugo Rabson: Creator of Mondo Rescue. The Mondo Rescue original Web site made by Hugo is also still available. Note that the paypal icon there is for rewarding Hugo's work, but has nothing to do with the current development of Mondo Rescue.
Latest news
2011-06-30 Regression in mindi-busybox 1.18.3
The mindi-busybox 1.18.3 packages currently availble have a regression compared to the previous 1.7.3 version: it doesn't delete the loop device when umounting the ISO. So as 8 loop are available by default, depending on the media used it may errored more or less rapidly. If you do not suffer from the tar problem that motivated that upgrade, go back to 1.7.3 or increase the number of loop devices when loading the device.
We are working on a fix for the mindi-busybox package that will be provided as soon as possible.
2011-06-28 Project mondorescue version 2.2.9.7 is now available
The project team is happy to announce the availability of a newest version of mondorescue 2.2.9.7. Enjoy it as usual!
Maintenance version which fixes an annoying segmentation fault when including or in some cases excluding directories. this version should also improve multi-device support and computation of size of partitions. Extensive description after the package list.
Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
As usual source packages are also available in the same directory.
Changes are :
MINDI-BUSYBOX CHANGES
- Adds the swapon feature to mindi-busybox (Bruno Cornec)
- Removes telinit call in busybox to try to fix problems when reboot at end of restore (Bruno Cornec)
- Addes an extraversion for revision support (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for ifconfig and ping for PXE+NFS boot for this version of mindi-busybox (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for MT back mandatory for OBDR (Bruno Cornec)
MINDI CHANGES
- Fix mindi-get-perl-modules when perl dirs in @INC are symlinks (case on Ubuntu 11.04) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix option --findkernel in case of Xen kernel so that mondoarchive get a correct answer instead of an empty one. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #484 by adding support for the arcmsr driver (to support the Areca ARC-1220 RAID Controller) (Bruno Cornec)
- Avoids error msgs if no mondo-restore.cfg file exists (when mindi used stdalone) (Bruno Cornec)
- Attempt to fix Xen kernel support by avoiding to remove xen kernel fro; the possible_kernels list too early, whereas it's used afterwards to get them. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #481 by supporting the new kbd file in latest Ubuntu 10.10+ (Victor Gattegno)
- Propose more variables in the mindi.conf example (Bruno Cornec)
- More explicit messages when size unsufficient in mindi for kernel + initrd as per #471 (Bruno Cornec)
- Log content of mondo-restore.cfg (Bruno Cornec)
- Remove very old code creating confusing symlinks pico to nano in init. Fix #477 (patch from MC)
MONDO-DOC CHANGES
- Fix -E and -I example in man page which were lacking the '|' as separator (Bruno Cornec)
- Update on P2V doc including RHEL6 validation and some minor additions (Lester Wade)
MONDO CHANGES
- Fix multi-media restore by umounting it before looping to ask for the next (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #485 by replacing a wrong call to mr_asprintf which was provoking core dumped (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a NULL pointer used in exclude_path if -E option for mondoarchive was not specified (Taguchi/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix -maxdepth option usage for find command (Taguchi)
- Free memory for mountdir which was forgotten (backport from 2.2.10) (Bruno Cornec)
- Better loging of labeling in mondo when in nuke mode (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #468 by adding support of ext attr and compression type through the GUI. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #433 by introducing a new bkpinfo member (subdir) to support storing the subdir under which ISO images are stored on an external HDD (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #432 with a better message at a start (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #404 with text properly centered in open_and_list_dir (Chucky)
- Fix computation issues in resize_drive_proportionately_to_suit_new_drives (JB/Bruno Cornec)
2011-04-13 Project mondorescue version 2.2.9.6 is now available
The project team is happy to announce the availability of a newest version of mondorescue 2.2.9.6. Enjoy it as usual!
this version should fix the core dumped encountered by users with the curses interface, improve Arch Linux support, solve again the problem around size of boot media for Debian 6, Fedora 14 and the likes, and deb dependencies around wodim, genisimage.
Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
As usual source packages are also available in the same directory.
Changes are :
MINDI-BUSYBOX CHANGES
- Remove blkid from busybox to solve #435 (Bruno Cornec)
MINDI CHANGES
- Increase sizes again more for Debian 6/Ubuntu 10.x and Fedora 14 support (Victor Gattegno)
- Adds a UdevadmTrigger function at restore time to deal with the various syntax formats changes ddepending on version (MC)
- Improved Arch Linux support, boot message, keyboard, ... (MC)
- Adds reboot to fix #435 (Bruno Cornec)
- Use modprobe instead of insmod to load loop, cd, ... modules (in order to force them at restore time) (Bruno Cornec)
- Add support for libahci driver (Bruno Cornec)
MONDO-DOC CHANGES
- Documents option -v of mondoarchive (Bruno Cornec)
- Updated Lab for TES 2011 (Bruno Cornec)
- Update P2V doc incorporating latest ML feedbacks (Lester Wade)
MONDO CHANGES
- Improved message for Arch Linux for rebuilding the initrd (MC)
- Accept to work with either wodim or cdreord and genisoimage or mkisofs (Bruno Cornec)
- Avoids coredump again when exclude_path is NULL with mr_make_devlist_from_pathlist (MC/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a seg fault bug when using the GUI in case exclude_paths was NULL (MC)
2011-03-12 Project mondorescue version 2.2.9.5 is now available
The project team is happy to announce the availability of a newest version of mondorescue 2.2.9.5. Enjoy it as usual!
This version should better support Fedora 14, Debian 6 and RHEL 6 in particular for this last one some changes at LVM level. It also backports from 2.2.10 the dynamic allocation mode for excludes, so now the limit should be your machine's memory. Lots of small annoying bugs hve been fixed as reported below in more detail. It finally provides a new mindi-busybox version to solve issues met with tar crashing at restore time, and the new mindi is backward compatible with the older version as well.
Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
As usual source packages are also available in the same directory.
Changes are :
MINDI-BUSYBOX CHANGES
- Updated based on busybox 1.18.3 to solve tar issues with latest RHEL 6 e.g. (Bruno Cornec)
MINDI CHANGES
- Adds functions and /bin/loadkeys (new location) to minimal set of commands to have (Bruno Cornec)
- provides a makemessage option to mindi and this function now works with pbdistrocheck (Bruno Cornec)
- Latest lvdisplay on RHEL6 prints MiB instead of MB. Impact on analyze-my-lvm fixed. (Bruno Cornec)
- With mindi-busybox 1.18.3 the syntax of openvt changed. Mindi is now compatible with this as well as the older one. (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds a restore quiet option (Bruno Cornec)
- Fixes for RHEL6 support with additional modules (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #462 (removes temp dir if analyze-my-lvm launched in stand alone mode) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix issue with mindi when launched from a dir containing spaces (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #459 by correcting an old README containing info on the edit-mountlist binary which doesn't exist. (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for hpsa (new HP Smart Array driver), r8169, xhci, virtio, mega_sr, ide_gd_mod, pata_jmicron, cp210x, dca, raid6_pq, xor async_tx, async_memcpy, async_xor, pata_sil680 drivers (Bruno Cornec)
- Replace usage of pvs with pvscan for speed reasons in analyze-my-lvm (Bruno Cornec)
- Workaround problems met on RHEL 5.2 and 5.4 around pvs command generating a list of \n separated pvs with back quotes in an unexpected way. (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds /etc/rpc and /etc/netconfig as minimal deps for mindi for latest NFS support (Bruno Cornec)
- Boot size and extra size pushed to 24MB and 70MB to support correctly Fedora 14 and Debian 6.0 (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #446 by exiting mindi before doing anything weird in it (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #445 to avoid vg with similar names to be wrongly excluded (vgroot and vgroot-san e.g.) (Michael Shapiro/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #426 by rewriting Xen kernel support to use TryToFindKernelPath systematically (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now copies also the /lib/firmware content in order to have it for drivers needing it (bnx2 reported) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #434 by really testing thet udevd is not running already (chucky)
- mindi is now able to handle compressed kernel with .gz or .bz2 suffix (case of OpenSuSE 11.2) (Bruno Cornec)
MONDO-DOC CHANGES
- Document in man page and HOWTO the syntax modifications for -E/-I options and '|' separator
- Adds the mondoarchive reference card (Lester Wade)
- Updated P2V doc from Lester Wade (Lester Wade)
MONDO CHANGES
- Do not create an error when a phys device has 0 size and is a /dev/dm-* device (Bruno Cornec)
- Excluding vmhgfs FS for VMWare guests mounting areas of the host. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #444. mondoarchive now supports inclusion/exclusion of dirs with spaces in their name. this required a syntax change for the -E/-I options where the list of dirs needs to be separated by '|' now instead of ' '. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug when no -E option is given on CLI (null) string generated (Bruno Cornec)
- Backport from 2.2.10 the support of a dynamic exclude_path variable. Should help fix #366, #421, #368, #371, #443 (Bruno Cornec)
- Exits if the protocol used is not recognized (error with -n fs:// typo) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug on exclusion of path with common content (/home and /path/home e.g.) which was handled correctly only in a certain order (John Pearson)
- mount-media function is now placed in libmondo-devices.c as used by more programs. (Bruno Cornec)
- Avoids calling mount_media when it's not mandatory (change the way mondorestore was working up to now but could solve some bugs reported) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #412 by using grub.unsupported correctly before grub-install as both exist on opensuse 11.2 (Bruno Cornec)
- Try to provide a workaround in code to the #401 (over-allocation of space due to rounding errors) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug when using ACLs and file with spaces in their names by adding double quotes in getfacl invocation (Tom Mortell)
- Attempt to fix problem of slowdown in filelist creation by re-introducing a limit to the find command (Bruno Cornec)
- Improves logging for external binary (Bruno Cornec)
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