Backups

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 01:56, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> >>
> > The images with mondorescue are easily configured to be rescue/restore
> > images, bootable and easily used to do a complete barebones restore.
> 
> I wanted all the images to be on a USB hdd - and during the rescue
> mode - boot off the image cd - and get the recovery going from the iso
> images stored on the USB hdd. When I tried the recovery step -
> something didn't work (there were errors).
> 
> I haven't explored this completely - need to spend more time on it.
> 
> Satish

I have never tried that.  The configuration for Mondo would allow you to
do a minimal restore from CD and then the rest of it from the other
drive.  What I do is a full backup to CD isos, but it could also be done
to DVD isos and thus fewer disks.

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