Kelly Black <kelly-black at mediaone.net> writes:
> Speaking of backups, has anybody tried Mondo Rescue?
> http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

Thanks for reminding me about mondo.  I'll be backing up my system this
weekend, if not tonight!

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:16:21AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> I just looked at the website and read some docs, and Mondo Rescue
> seems tailored only to rescue type backups, not to periodic, scheduled
> backups of data.  If you want to do daily data backups, seems not so
> good.

Define daily backups.  If you mean incremental backups, you're probably
correct.  I'd have to look at mondo's code to find out, but it sounds
like a reasonable assumption.  Although, there is an exclude option to
exclude directories.  If you just wanted to do a daily backup of let's
say /etc, /var/backup and /home, you could probably get away with it by
making a nice long excludes list.

> Perhaps what one should do is a combination of monthly Mondo backups
> for system rescue, combined with daily backups of /home to save data?


> I'd still like something that would talk to my DAT changer....

I believe mondo does go to tapes now.  If you're using tapes, however,
I'd probably just use Amanda.  Yes, there are lots of complaints about
it not being able to append-to-tape, but think of it as a simplification
instead of a lack of feature. *grin*  I've been using Amanda to do
backups of *NIX and Windows machines for quite some time.  It works
quite well.

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