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On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:51:01AM +0000 or thereabouts, Steve Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to back up a 40GB disk (hda ) to an external USB hardrive 
> (sda) by
> running mondoarchive ( with no args).
> I select "back up to hard disk"  and set the ISO size to 600MB as I only 
> have
> a CD writer (not DVD) - and I need to burn the first bootable CD to use
> for restore.

Mondo creates a '/var/cache/mindi/mondorescue.iso' bootable CD image no
matter what backup method you are using.  You only need to burn this to CD
for restore.  After that, mondorescue will use your backup on the USB hard
drive.  Set the ISO size to something much bigger and try that. 

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>> - nuke mode : no boot

>Give also logs of this case.

I join you these logs as soon as possible ...

>> - interactive : i have to change the boot device /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 instead of /dev/cciss/c0d0

>Why ?

Default device : /dev/cciss/c0d0, but no boot.
If i change it : /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 : boot ok.

>> In mondorestore.log, I find this :
>> 
>> 18:08 grub-MR /dev/cciss/c0dp1 /tmp/mountlist.txt

>Yep, but before I also see:
>18:08 stabgrub-me '/dev/cciss/c0dp1' --- starting

What do you mean ? Because it should be /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 and not /dev/cciss/c0dp1 ...
What is the stabgrub-me ?
I think it's linked with nuke restore, don't you think ?

>And that command is only used in interactive mode, so that's a parameter
>you gave to the program.

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Bruno Cornec wrote:
> JeffS said on Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0400:
> 
>> I think this issue may be new behavior by Mondo. I've been using mondo
>> for years. So of course it's not my error :-)
> 
> In fact it's an old behavior which causes this.
> Looking at the code, I remarked that there is no udev support in mondo
> yet. And most of the latest distributions use udev, and more over rules
> in udev to re-map drives as they want. (typically what should be a hda
> in sda ...)
> 
> So I'm working on adding udev support to mondo as part of another task
> currently. the next 2.2.5 beta should provide it, and I'd be happy if
> you can test it.
> 
> Bruno.
Bruno,

In case I've missed a previous post, this may be the issue I had where I 
could never get suse 10.2 to boot a rescue disk unless I used an older 
kernel not the running kernel.

Thanks,
JeffS

Eric Poinsignon said on Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:17:32AM +0100:

> > Gives us your /var/log/mindi.log file
> 
> Here is the mindi.log file from a clone machine (same hard and config
> with the very last mondo version).

Ok. I have an idea. Please wait till end of week. I'll release a new
1.3.0 for mindi that I'd like you to test. I guess it will help.
(Could be a conflict in modules loaded, currently we load all saved
modules, some of them may cause an issue in your case).
The next version will support udev and then shouldn't cause these
problems anymore (just others ;-)

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>>> I'm still unable to restore a mondo backup to a VM.. Tried in both
>>> QEMU and VMware.. can you give me an example setup in how you've
>>> achieved this in the past?
>>> The mondorescue just doesn't seem to recognised /dev/sda or /dev/ 
>>> had.
>>> I see from the maillist lots of other people trying this - has
>>> anyone succeeded?
>> Adrian - I did it recently using Parallels on OSX - and I didn't do
>> anything special, just had it boot the VM from the mondo cd.
>> Sorry that's not much help :-(
> How did you configure the VM disk (SCSI/IDE? Any particular  
> controller?)
> My host is a SATA drive machine. What was yours?

The host machine is an intel iMac - SATA running OSX
The image was created on a bog standard Compaq desktop with IDE drives.
Parallels is Macish - i.e. they don't let you change things like the  
emulated controller :-)  but running lspci in the vm shows an Intel  
82801BA controller

HTH
Brian
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Hi Brian,

How did you configure the VM disk (SCSI/IDE? Any particular controller?)
My host is a SATA drive machine. What was yours?

Adrian Marsh

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On 29-Oct-07, at 6:32 AM, Adrian Marsh wrote:

> Hi Bruno...
>
>
>
> I'm still unable to restore a mondo backup to a VM.. Tried in both =20
> QEMU and VMware.. can you give me an example setup in how you've =20
> achieved this in the past?
>
> The mondorescue just doesn't seem to recognised /dev/sda or /dev/had.
>
> I see from the maillist lots of other people trying this - has =20
> anyone succeeded?
Adrian - I did it recently using Parallels on OSX - and I didn't do =20
anything special, just had it boot the VM from the mondo cd.
Sorry that's not much help :-(
Brian
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On 10/27/07, Bruno Cornec <Bru...@hp...> wrote:
> JeffS said on Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0400:
>
> > I think this issue may be new behavior by Mondo. I've been using mondo
> > for years. So of course it's not my error :-)
>
> In fact it's an old behavior which causes this.
> Looking at the code, I remarked that there is no udev support in mondo
> yet. And most of the latest distributions use udev, and more over rules
> in udev to re-map drives as they want. (typically what should be a hda
> in sda ...)
>
> So I'm working on adding udev support to mondo as part of another task
> currently. the next 2.2.5 beta should provide it, and I'd be happy if
> you can test it.
>
> Bruno.
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> Hello Dan,
>
> Dan Swartzendruber said on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:00:35PM -0400:
>
>> p.s. bruno, did you see my post about running out of ramdisk during th=
e
>> archive process?  as i said in that post, i rebuilt the source doublin=
g
>> the size of the ramdisk, and it worked, but i don't know why it failed=
 -
>> it seemed to me the computation of how many files can be cached in the
>> ramdisk mount point must have been wrong...
>
> Yep, seen that. My current problem is that I tend to not answer to some
> requests, when I know it will take me too much time to analyze and
> understand. As I saw you found a turn around, I thought it was less
> critical, and I have so many item to do before delivering 2.2.5, which
> in turn is so much needed ....
>
> It's still in my nbox, and I'll try to look at it when time permits, bu=
t
> probably more in 2 weeks from now I think.

No problem.

Hello Dan,

Dan Swartzendruber said on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:00:35PM -0400:

> p.s. bruno, did you see my post about running out of ramdisk during the
> archive process?  as i said in that post, i rebuilt the source doubling
> the size of the ramdisk, and it worked, but i don't know why it failed -
> it seemed to me the computation of how many files can be cached in the
> ramdisk mount point must have been wrong...

Yep, seen that. My current problem is that I tend to not answer to some
requests, when I know it will take me too much time to analyze and
understand. As I saw you found a turn around, I thought it was less
critical, and I have so many item to do before delivering 2.2.5, which
in turn is so much needed ....

It's still in my nbox, and I'll try to look at it when time permits, but
probably more in 2 weeks from now I think.

Bruno.
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>> I don't mind doing this, but would rather not  have to deviate from th=
e
>> standard
>> release if possible. But I can't help thinking I am doing this the wro=
ng
>> way.
>> I anyone can see what I am doing wrong I'd be very grateful.
>
> Maybe you should just backup your system via mondo and bckup your data
> on your external disk in parallel with your ISO images.
>
> rsync, unison are very good tools to do that.

I can second this.  Most of my server's space is taken up by the /home
directory, with lots of multimedia files.  I use amanda to do weekly
backups via nfs to a NAS.  When I run mondoarchive, I specifically tell i=
t
to exclude /home, which gets the compressed size down to about 4GB, so it
fits on one DVD.

p.s. bruno, did you see my post about running out of ramdisk during the
archive process?  as i said in that post, i rebuilt the source doubling
the size of the ramdisk, and it worked, but i don't know why it failed -
it seemed to me the computation of how many files can be cached in the
ramdisk mount point must have been wrong...

Steve Murphy said on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:51:01AM +0000:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to back up a 40GB disk (hda ) to an external USB hardrive (sda) 
> by
> running mondoarchive ( with no args).
> I select "back up to hard disk"  and set the ISO size to 600MB as I only 
> have
> a CD writer (not DVD) - and I need to burn the first bootable CD to use
> for restore. I set no compression - to save time as I have plenty of space 
> on
> the external drive.

Humm, maybe, but that would help reduce the number of ISO by a factor of
around 2. So you wouldn't encounter that problem.

BTW, if your machine can boot on USB, you'll be soon be able to do a
backup directly on an external disk which will be use as the source for
the restore.

> Mondo proceeds (for 5 hours) creating 50 ISOs and then bombs with
> ---FATALERROR--- Too many CD-R(W)'s. Use tape or net.

Murphy's law ;-) (Sorry couldn't resist !)

> It seems I can edit mondostructures.h and change
> #define MAX_NOOF_MEDIA 49

Yes. I never tried it myself, but should work.

> I don't mind doing this, but would rather not  have to deviate from the 
> standard
> release if possible. But I can't help thinking I am doing this the wrong 
> way.
> I anyone can see what I am doing wrong I'd be very grateful.

Maybe you should just backup your system via mondo and bckup your data
on your external disk in parallel with your ISO images.

rsync, unison are very good tools to do that.

Bruno.
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Brian McKee said on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:49:45AM -0400:

> I wanted to do some work with Ubuntu 7.10 as a possible new desktop  
> for our stores - a working mondo was a condition for acceptance :-)
> I'd be happy to test when you've got something

Well, I think you can try the version I build today. Just be warned that
as I'm closing bugs on bugs, I release frequent versions of these
packages.
ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/7.10

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On 29-Oct-07, at 6:32 AM, Adrian Marsh wrote:

> Hi Bruno=E2=80=A6
>
>
>
> I=E2=80=99m still unable to restore a mondo backup to a VM.. Tried in =
both =20
> QEMU and VMware.. can you give me an example setup in how you=E2=80=99ve=
 =20
> achieved this in the past?
>
> The mondorescue just doesn=E2=80=99t seem to recognised /dev/sda or =
/dev/had.
>
> I see from the maillist lots of other people trying this =E2=80=93 has =
=20
> anyone succeeded?
Adrian - I did it recently using Parallels on OSX - and I didn't do =20
anything special, just had it boot the VM from the mondo cd.
Sorry that's not much help :-(
Brian
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On 29-Oct-07, at 6:39 AM, Bruno Cornec wrote:

> Till D=F6rges said on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:11:06PM +0200:
>
>> while testing mondo (2.2.5) under openSUSE 10.3 I stumbled across =20
>> the fact that mondo
>> and openSUSE name my HDD differently (mondo: /dev/hda, openSUSE: /=20
>> dev/sda):
>>
>>   http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-=20
>> NOTES.en.html#08
>
> THis is due to the fact that mondo up to now wasn't using udev at =20
> estore
> time :-(
>
> I've worked this week-end on this (on a Ubuntu 7.10 which has the same
> issue) and will propose a new beta to test soon I hope.
>
> I had to add also support of dynamically linked binaries at restore =20=

> time
> so that I can launch udev, which will also make changes in
> mindi-busybox. Finally lots of changes all over the place in mindi :-)
>
> So I'll need testers.

Bruno

I wanted to do some work with Ubuntu 7.10 as a possible new desktop =20
for our stores - a working mondo was a condition for acceptance :-)
I'd be happy to test when you've got something

Brian
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Hi,
I'm trying to back up a 40GB disk (hda ) to an external USB hardrive 
(sda) by
running mondoarchive ( with no args).
I select "back up to hard disk"  and set the ISO size to 600MB as I only 
have
a CD writer (not DVD) - and I need to burn the first bootable CD to use
for restore. I set no compression - to save time as I have plenty of 
space on
the external drive.
Mondo proceeds (for 5 hours) creating 50 ISOs and then bombs with
---FATALERROR--- Too many CD-R(W)'s. Use tape or net.

I have searched the mail archives and found a relevant thread
*[Mondo-devel] AARGH! 50CD-Boundary*
From: Philipp Kirchner <mondo@ph...> - 2003-01-26 19:11

It seems I can edit mondostructures.h and change
#define MAX_NOOF_MEDIA 49

I don't mind doing this, but would rather not  have to deviate from the 
standard
release if possible. But I can't help thinking I am doing this the wrong 
way.
I anyone can see what I am doing wrong I'd be very grateful.

steve

Till Dörges said on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:52:51PM +0200:

> <6>Unpacking initramfs...

THat ws what I was looking for.

So it shold be fixed in the upcoming beta (count a couple of days)

Bruno.
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Till Dörges said on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:11:06PM +0200:

> while testing mondo (2.2.5) under openSUSE 10.3 I stumbled across the fact that mondo
> and openSUSE name my HDD differently (mondo: /dev/hda, openSUSE: /dev/sda):
> 
>   http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#08

THis is due to the fact that mondo up to now wasn't using udev at estore
time :-(

I've worked this week-end on this (on a Ubuntu 7.10 which has the same
issue) and will propose a new beta to test soon I hope.

I had to add also support of dynamically linked binaries at restore time
so that I can launch udev, which will also make changes in
mindi-busybox. Finally lots of changes all over the place in mindi :-)

So I'll need testers.

> It's not really a problem when restoring from CD/DVD, because one can manually adapt
> the mountlist.

THat will probably not be necessary anymore in the future.

> Apart from that and the issue with the initrd fstype mondo seems to be working fine
> on my openSUSE 10.3 box. :-)

Great ;-)

bruno.
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Hi Bruno...

=20

I'm still unable to restore a mondo backup to a VM.. Tried in both QEMU
and VMware.. can you give me an example setup in how you've achieved
this in the past?

The mondorescue just doesn't seem to recognised /dev/sda or /dev/had.

I see from the maillist lots of other people trying this - has anyone
succeeded?

=20

Adrian=20

=20

ant...@ne... said on Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:44:18AM -0400:

> - nuke mode : no boot

Give also logs of this case.

> - interactive : i have to change the boot device /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 instead of /dev/cciss/c0d0

Why ?

> In mondorestore.log, I find this :
> 
> 18:08 grub-MR /dev/cciss/c0dp1 /tmp/mountlist.txt

Yep, but before I also see:
18:08 stabgrub-me '/dev/cciss/c0dp1' --- starting

And that command is only used in interactive mode, so that's a parameter
you gave to the program.

Bruno.
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JeffS said on Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0400:

> I think this issue may be new behavior by Mondo. I've been using mondo
> for years. So of course it's not my error :-)

In fact it's an old behavior which causes this.
Looking at the code, I remarked that there is no udev support in mondo
yet. And most of the latest distributions use udev, and more over rules
in udev to re-map drives as they want. (typically what should be a hda
in sda ...)

So I'm working on adding udev support to mondo as part of another task
currently. the next 2.2.5 beta should provide it, and I'd be happy if
you can test it.

Bruno.
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Okay, this is interesting.  I downloaded the mondo 2.2.5 sources, change
PPCFG_RAMDISK_SIZE from 350 to 800 and compiled&installed.  Worked fine.=20
Looking for the ramdisk messages, I see:

        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 790
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 787
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 755
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 743
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 727
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 711
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 691
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 689
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 663
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 653
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 645
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 634
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 618
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 590
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 565
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 510
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 496
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 486
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 400
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 380

it looks like somehow the space computation is off, and the old code was
trying to write more than would fit?

I'm running on the latest and greatest mondoarchive, mindi and
mindi-busybox RPMs for RHEL4.  When I try to back up to hard drive option=
,
it's failing.  What I see in the log is:

        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 45
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1273:
                                         [5104:1]
- archived 21 OK
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1233:
                                         [5104:1]
- EXATing 23...
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1246:
                                         [5104:1]
- archiving 23...
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 36
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1273:
                                         [5104:0]
- archived 22 OK
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1233:
                                         [5104:0]
- EXATing 24...
                        [Main]
libmondo-archive.c->create_afio_files_in_background#1246:
                                         [5104:0]
- archiving 24...
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->make_afioballs_and_images#1736: Storin=
g
set 18
        [Main] libmondo-archive.c->archive_this_fileset#558:
min(free_ramdisk_space) is now 1
[Main] newt-specific.c->fatal_error#382: Fatal error received - 'Please
increase PPCFG_RAMDISK_SIZE in my-stuff.h to increase size of ramdisk '

NOTE: there were obviously a lot more of these messages, and the pattern
is that you can clearly see the free space decreasing until it bottoms
out.  I saw a message in the commit logs that this was increased some tim=
e
ago.  Have I just been unlucky?

Greg wrote:
> are you on a dell?
> 
Yes it's Dell. I only have the /dev/sda the internal HD as a boot
selection unless I hit F12.

I think this issue may be new behavior by Mondo. I've been using mondo
for years. So of course it's not my error :-)

I can restore files OK from a mondo rescue dvd when the machine is
booted normally.

I had updated my bios some months ago so I could play with booting flash
drives.


Thanks,

JeffS

> the reason i ask is i recently posted about a similar issue (cd media
> and not dvd though). Dell BIOS has a virtual floppy and virtual cdrom
> that show up as scsi devices. Mondo would back everything up fine but
> when I went to restore it could not find /dev/sda. When I removed both
> those devices from the boot order, the restore worked (with an
> exception of /dev/cdrom no longer detected but /dev/cdrom1 available
> since the virtual cdrom bios change).
> 
> -Greg
> 
> On 10/25/07, JeffS <je...@jl...> wrote:
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> Mondo picked up a new bad habit maybe. I can create a boot dvd ok and it
>> boots ok. But when I run mondorestore->verify only the mountlist appears
>> with the message about can't find /dev/sda/
>>
>> My system is suse 10.2 and sata and sata drives are sda.
>>
>> Am I missing a module?
>>
>> Log enclosed.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> JeffS
>>

are you on a dell?

the reason i ask is i recently posted about a similar issue (cd media
and not dvd though). Dell BIOS has a virtual floppy and virtual cdrom
that show up as scsi devices. Mondo would back everything up fine but
when I went to restore it could not find /dev/sda. When I removed both
those devices from the boot order, the restore worked (with an
exception of /dev/cdrom no longer detected but /dev/cdrom1 available
since the virtual cdrom bios change).

-Greg

On 10/25/07, JeffS <je...@jl...> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> Mondo picked up a new bad habit maybe. I can create a boot dvd ok and it
> boots ok. But when I run mondorestore->verify only the mountlist appears
> with the message about can't find /dev/sda/
>
> My system is suse 10.2 and sata and sata drives are sda.
>
> Am I missing a module?
>
> Log enclosed.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> JeffS
>
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Good Morning,

Mondo picked up a new bad habit maybe. I can create a boot dvd ok and it
boots ok. But when I run mondorestore->verify only the mountlist appears
with the message about can't find /dev/sda/

My system is suse 10.2 and sata and sata drives are sda.

Am I missing a module?

Log enclosed.


Regards,

JeffS