MondoMindi

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This document contains a step-by-step proceedure for setting up mondo/mindi backup and recovery on an Ubuntu Breezy box.

What is mondo/mindi?

From the mondo/mindi website (http://www.mondorescue.org) HowTo:

Mondo Rescue is a Disaster Recovery Solution which allows you to effortlessly backup and interactively restore Linux, Windows and other supported filesystem partitions to/from CD-R/RW media, tape, NFS, ... and Mindi Linux provides the bootable emergency restore CD/floppy set which Mondo uses at boot-time.

Description of this solution

The mondo/mindi configuration described herein comes curtesy of Nick Wheeler, who uses a similar proceedure to backup servers at work. I'm going to first describe the roll your own solution, building everything from source, and then hopefully Nick will help me refine and simplify the process so that x86 Ubuntu Breezy boxes can be setup with a\ single install script.

The "Roll Your Own" Solution

Prerequisits

Make sure you have the following packages installed:

  1. gcc
  2. make
  3. libnewt-dev
  4. buffer
  5. gawk
  6. syslinux
  7. afio
  8. cdrecord

Now move to the '/usr/local/src' directory and get the mondo-mindi sources:

  1. cd /usr/local/src
  2. download each of the following: (note: there may be newer versions of each of these by the time you read this, but I plan to
    • test this procedure every 6 months - with each Ubuntu release - and to put a version know to work in a safe place.)