I’ve been playing for a while with backup & recovery options for my webserver. For a while now I’ve been using a homegrown bash script that I created, which worked fine, but did have its limitations. Today I found something that I hope will give me everything I need.
Mondo Rescue looks like it should give me the fullblown machine image that I’m looking for. The only thing I haven’t found just yet (mainly due to lack of searching) is the option to automate the process. I want to make a daily complete image of the entire machine. Mondo will do that & pack it all into a nice .iso which also doubles as a bootable restore CD.
If anyone has experience with mondo or automating the process please let me know. Otherwise, my work here is done… for now.
UPDATE: I have just sucessfully run a homemade bash script that automates all of my backup needs.? As soon as I add the entry into cron I will have nightly mondo images, mysqldumps and rync’d results to a remote machine.? If anyone is interested just drop me a line for the script.
I’ve used Mondo, although of late I’ve grown rather lax in my backup duties. I had a hard drive crash a few years back and luckily I had Mondo backups of the whole system, sans my mp3 collection. The restore worked well, no hickups that I can recall. I’m still running that system on the replacement hard drive.
I set up a set of crontabs to create ISOs every so often (full on sunday, incremental every day IIRC), but it was a pain to burn them to disk. That’s pretty much what caused me to neglect backups. I have RW media and it’s only 10x, so burning the whole set, like 5 discs, just takes too long.
I would love a copy of your mondo backup script. I just had to do a rather elaborate manoeuvre to recreate an LVM config file on a system that had the LVM record squashed during an upgrade.