Yes I have, it was the first thing I tried. When Mondo works it's great and I like it-- unfortunately Mondo appears to have issues with some of my boxes. Since Mondo wasn't pure joy I rolled my own (good way to learn the issues involved w/bare metal recovery if nothing else) and *appear* to have it working except for the xfs issue (and now I'm curious). Slightly off topic, part of my testing has been trying to restore to dissimilar hardware (think disaster recovery). I was very pleasantly amazed to be able to restore a Compaq DL320 running RedHat 7.3 to a Omnitech desktop and have the restored box work (after running kudzu of course)-- I think the only thing the two boxes have in common is a Pentium processor. --greg PS. I just yesterday ran across a tool called mkCDrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/) that looks similar to Mondo but haven't tested it yet. On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:11, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gregory Siems wrote: > > I am attempting to implement a means of performing bare metal recovery > > of the Linux boxes under my care. To do this I have a script that tars > > up the files and creates scripts for restoring the partitioning, boot > > loader, etc. The idea being that if I have a bootable Linux distribution > > (i.e. Knoppix) and the backup then I could bare metal restore the backed > > up system. > > Not to answer your question directly, but have you tried using Mondo? It's > a full-featured restore utilitity just like what you describe. > > http://www.mondorescue.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list