Re: [Mondo-devel] Mondorescue - backup over NFS - CDROM problem

Hi,

By modifying your mondo-restore.cfg by hand, it should be possible to restore. Check it, in that file the backup-media-type is surely set to “netfs”, as you backuped through NFS.

In your mondorescue iso file, backup-media-type is set in mondo-restore.cfg file, which is in tmp directory, itself in images/all.tar.gz

*  Check my advise (6 Apr 11:43) in: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mondo.devel/month=20110401:

*  a mondo-restore.cfg of a direct mondoarchive backup in a directory, should contain :

  *   backup-media-type iso

*  a mondo-restore.cfg of a direct mondoarchive backup on a USB hard disk, should contain (for example) :

  *   usb-dev /dev/sdb
backup-media-type usb

Rgds
Victor

From: Michał Skoczylas [mailto:mps...@gm...]
Sent: mercredi 17 septembre 2014 15:18
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] Mondorescue - backup over NFS - CDROM problem

Hello,
I've created NFS backup using mondoarchive, then using unetbootin I created bootable USB with /var/cache/mindi/mondorescue.iso. When I boot this Mindi linux from my USB, I got similar message as here: http://mondorescue-mailing-list.679749.n3.nabble.com/Mondo-devel-Mondorescue-backup-over-NFS-wants-to-restore-from-CD-td4025660.html
Which basically is: "
Optimizing IDE drive access...cat: can't open '/tmp/CDROM-LIVES-HERE': No such file or directory
I don't know where the CDROM lives. Optimization cancelled.
Executing preliminary script
The mondorestore command was not found on your backup media
It may mean your device is not seen correctly.
Check driver list and error messages.
Type 'exit' to reboot the PC"
and I got bash access, but no mondorestore command can be found.
So my first question regards this problem and I would like to know how to boot and restore using this iso image. I also attach my log files. I use Linux Mint 17 with repositories for Ubuntu 14.04, all newest versions.
I have also another more general question regarding NFS backup. I would like to create backup in some other form than ISO files, is there any other format possible? So I would like to know how to backup my data with no compression and no archive, preferably pure data. I tried to use option -u for streaming device but still I get data that are a little bit archived and I do not really know how to deal with them, because I see binary files all over the backup.
My use case is to get as pure data as possible with no concern about disc space.
Regards,
Michal