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Hary Jean said on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:46:48PM +0200:

> mindi-busybox-1.18.3-1.rhel5

Please use 1.18.5 instead. This is fixing the issue you're seeing.

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Hello again,

I had some time to fix the first problem (output from fdisk -l for lvm volumes).
I posted a bug report with a patch to trac: http://trac.mondorescue.org/ticket/652


Joel Kociolek,
France Création.



Le 18 oct. 2012 à 12:18, Joel Kociolek a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using mondorescue for one of my clients and we recently updated his servers to Ubuntu 12.04.
> The versions used are the most recent prepackaged provided for Ubuntu 12.04 i386 :
> mondo 3.0.2-1
> mindi 2.1.2-1
> mindi-busybox 1.18.5-2
> 
> The backup is done on a HP DAT Drive (with OBDR)
> 
> mondoarchive is started like that:
> 
> mondoarchive -O -t -d /dev/st0 -o -0 -I "/" -E "/home/export/backup" -N
> 
> 
> First problem: backup is started by cron, running unattended. Every night I get an email with warning message:
> 
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-var doesn't contain a valid partition table
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp doesn't contain a valid partition table
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-home doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> It comes from stderr of "fdisk -l". In previous Ubuntu version, fdisk -l was skipping LVM volumes. Not anymore in 12.04...
> 
> 
> Second problem: I tried to do a backup with "-k FAILSAFE", but it didn't work. Actually, it looks like a file is missing in the mindi package. When I start mindi manually and select to not use my own kernel I immediatly get the following error:
> 
> Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v2.1.2-r3018
> Latest Mindi is available from http://www.mondorescue.org
> BusyBox sources are available from http://www.busybox.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mindi-BusyBox v1.18.5-r3018 (2012-06-05 03:36:02 CEST) multi-call binary.
> Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk ([y]/n) ?n
> INFO: I shall include Mindi's failsafe kernel, not your kernel, in the boot disks.
>      However, you are still running your kernel. If Mindi fails to create your
>      disks then it may still be a result of a problem with your kernel.
> bzip2: Can't open input file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> FATAL ERROR. Cannot unzip lib.tar.bz2
> Please e-mail a copy of /var/log/mindi.log to the mailing list.
> See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information.
> WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file.
> 
> As you already guessed, the file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2 doesn't exist. I tried purging and reinstalling the mindi and mindi-busybox packages, but it didn't help.
> 
> 
> 
> Joel Kociolek,
> France Création.
> 
> 
> 
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Hello,

You can install :
afio-2.5-64.x86_64.rpm
buffer-1.19-740.x86_64.rpm
mindi-2.1.3-1.sles10.x86_64.rpm
mindi-busybox-1.18.5-1.sles10.x86_64.rpm
mondo-3.0.2-1.sles10.x86_64.rpm

I installed in the following order :
1 : afio
2 : mindi-busybox
3 : mindi
4 : buffer
5 : mondo

I also had to install libnewt.so and newt rpm before mondo.

Regards, Didier

-----Original Message-----
From: Pau...@nj... [mailto:Pau...@nj...] 
Sent: jeudi 18 octobre 2012 16:58
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] installation of Mondo Rescue


 I am wanting to install Mondo on my Suse Linux 10 sp3 box 64bit.

I understand I need to install mindi-busybox first, then mindi and finally
mondo

I am looking in the sles/10/x86_64 on the ftp site and was wondering what
versions of each I need to install for a first time install.

Is there anything else I should have preinstalled beforehand also?

Thank you for your time.

Paul



                                                                           
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Hi there

Usually our servers have only two internal hard drives. Configured as a hardware raid mirror.
Additional storage comes from NFS or SAN.

There are a few exceptions of course, which have additional local storage.
I'm backing up with the following arguments to mondoarchive:

# mondoarchive -OVi -d $backup_dir -I $backup_dev -p `hostname -s` -S /dev/shm -T /dev/shm -G -N -s 4g

$backup_dir is a nfs directory to a backup server.
$backup_dev is /dev/cciss/c0d0

This is the PV from our sysvg1 LVM volume group.
Additional storage is always in a datavg1 volume group and may be /dev/cciss/c0d1 or d2 and so on.
So the backup always only contains the pv from sysvg1 which is /dev/cciss/c0d0.

Now when restoring, all disks and partitions get reformatted even if they don't belong to the backup. (at least that's what I'm experiencing)
So I thought I'd just physically remove the additional disks from datavg1 during the restore.
Then it fails to partition these disks because they are in the mount list. Removing them from the mount list doesn't seem to help.
If I leave the disks in place they get nuked and we'd have to restore the data from our file level backups.

Is there a way we can work around this? I thought removing them from the mount list should work?


Thanks
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Hello,

I don't use -k FAILSAFE. I just tried it because I had a kernel panic problem when restoring a backup made with mindi-busybox 1.18.3 and I read the FAQ. However, in the meantime going to 1.18.5 solved this problem. I just wanted to report the bug that I had found. I would be happy to test with mindi 2.1.3, however it's still not available prebuilt for Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't have time to build it myself.
Should I post this problem to trac?

Same question concerning the spurious message from fdisk about lvm that I get every night since upgrading Ubuntu version: should I post it to trac? I'd be glad to help solve it (I have both strong admin and dev experience), however I don't have lots of time and don't know where to start. If someone could give me a heads-up it would really help.


Joel Kociolek,
France Création.



Le 19 oct. 2012 à 18:16, Gattegno, Victor (CPR&Q GCC - ISS/SW Tower) a écrit :

> Hello Joel,
> 
> About the second problem, don't use "-k FAILSAFE" option.
> 
> You could try mindi 2.1.3, check ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
> 
> If you get problems again, post also to the mailing-list the HP DAT Drive model and /var/log/mondoarchive.log file.
> 
> Rgds,
> Victor
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Kociolek [mailto:jo...@fr...] 
> Sent: jeudi 18 octobre 2012 12:19
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: [Mondo-devel] Two problems with mondorescue on Ubuntu 12.04
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using mondorescue for one of my clients and we recently updated his servers to Ubuntu 12.04.
> The versions used are the most recent prepackaged provided for Ubuntu 12.04 i386 :
> mondo 3.0.2-1
> mindi 2.1.2-1
> mindi-busybox 1.18.5-2
> 
> The backup is done on a HP DAT Drive (with OBDR)
> 
> mondoarchive is started like that:
> 
> mondoarchive -O -t -d /dev/st0 -o -0 -I "/" -E "/home/export/backup" -N
> 
> 
> First problem: backup is started by cron, running unattended. Every night I get an email with warning message:
> 
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-var doesn't contain a valid partition table
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp doesn't contain a valid partition table
> Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-home doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> It comes from stderr of "fdisk -l". In previous Ubuntu version, fdisk -l was skipping LVM volumes. Not anymore in 12.04...
> 
> 
> Second problem: I tried to do a backup with "-k FAILSAFE", but it didn't work. Actually, it looks like a file is missing in the mindi package. When I start mindi manually and select to not use my own kernel I immediatly get the following error:
> 
> Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v2.1.2-r3018
> Latest Mindi is available from http://www.mondorescue.org
> BusyBox sources are available from http://www.busybox.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mindi-BusyBox v1.18.5-r3018 (2012-06-05 03:36:02 CEST) multi-call binary.
> Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk ([y]/n) ?n
> INFO: I shall include Mindi's failsafe kernel, not your kernel, in the boot disks.
>      However, you are still running your kernel. If Mindi fails to create your
>      disks then it may still be a result of a problem with your kernel.
> bzip2: Can't open input file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> FATAL ERROR. Cannot unzip lib.tar.bz2
> Please e-mail a copy of /var/log/mindi.log to the mailing list.
> See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information.
> WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file.
> 
> As you already guessed, the file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2 doesn't exist. I tried purging and reinstalling the mindi and mindi-busybox packages, but it didn't help.
> 
> 
> 
> Joel Kociolek,
> France Création.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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It's been over 3 months now, any progress on this?

73 de Jim, KD1YV

On 09/21/2012 10:16 PM, JimR wrote:
> Yesterday, I sent a couple of pms to JB, not sure if everybody is on 
> the same page:
>
> JB
>
> Here is the exact command line I am running:
>
> mondoarchive -Or -K 2 -d /dev/sr0 -5 -p FC16hp6680t -l GRUB -f 
> /dev/sda -E 
> "/home/kd1yv3/.local/share/Trash|/mnt|/media|/multimedia|/tmp|/windows/C|/dev|/var/spool|/var/cache|/var/tmp|/usr/share/man|/usr/share/doc|/usr/share/games|/usr/src|/usr/share/foomatic|/usr/share/icons|/usr/share/locale/|/home/kd1yv3/.mozilla/firefox/e75nat1n.default/Cache|/home/kd1yv3/tmp|/home/kd1yv3/Dropbox|/home/kd1yv3/.local/share/akonadi" 
> -s 4480m -T /mnt/backups -S /tmp
>
> Also, regarding your earlier message,
> I previously had set as follows:
>
> EXTRA_SPACE=120000
> BOOT_SIZE=49152
>
> I changed it to
> EXTRA_SPACE=240000
> BOOT_SIZE=131072
>
> but still the same error.
>
> Thanks
> JimR
>
> 73 de Jim, KD1YV
>
> On 09/21/2012 12:39 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> Gattegno, Victor (CPR&Q GCC - ISS/SW Tower) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the log it looks like there is a problem in mindi execution, with tar and the lib directories of bigdir.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>> Assembling dependency files........tar: lib: Cannot create symlink to `usr/lib': File exists
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>> ...
>>> FATAL ERROR. Cannot copy /lib to /mnt/backups/mondo.tmp.1kmvZ4/bigdir - did you run out of disk space?
>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I would advise to execute mindi in debug mode:
>>> # sh -x /usr/sbin/mindi < /dev/null 2>&1 | tee /tmp/mindi-x.log
>>>
>>> Then you can compare /usr/sbin/mindi content with what's logged in /tmp/mindi-x.log and in /var/log/mindi.log
>>>
>>> Eventually, before to run mindi, in /usr/sbin/mindi 2.1.3, ligne 2167 could be replaced:
>>>
>>>        rm -rf $bigdir
>>>        rm -f $needlist
>>>
>>> By :
>>>
>>>        mkdir /tmp/all-tar-mindi
>>>        cp -rf $bigdir /tmp/all-tar-mindi
>>>        cp -f $needlist /tmp/all-tar-mindi
>>>        rm -rf $bigdir
>>>        rm -f $needlist
>>>
>>> So you could check in /tmp/all-tar-mindi the list of files and the bigdir tree (with eventually a symlink to `usr/lib'problem), compared to other Fedora version (or other GNU/Linux distrib) that work well with Mondorescue.
>> That's exactly the error I saw that led me to post to this thread. It
>> also led me to find the hack in the Fedora mailing list archives that
>> I've already posted also.
>>
>> The author of the Fedora post I found was convinced that Fedora's move
>> in 17 to symlinking directories to /usr was the cause of it FWIW.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil...
>>
>>
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Hello Joel,

About the second problem, don't use "-k FAILSAFE" option.

You could try mindi 2.1.3, check ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org

If you get problems again, post also to the mailing-list the HP DAT Drive model and /var/log/mondoarchive.log file.

Rgds,
Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Kociolek [mailto:jo...@fr...] 
Sent: jeudi 18 octobre 2012 12:19
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] Two problems with mondorescue on Ubuntu 12.04

Hi,

I'm using mondorescue for one of my clients and we recently updated his servers to Ubuntu 12.04.
The versions used are the most recent prepackaged provided for Ubuntu 12.04 i386 :
mondo 3.0.2-1
mindi 2.1.2-1
mindi-busybox 1.18.5-2

The backup is done on a HP DAT Drive (with OBDR)

mondoarchive is started like that:

mondoarchive -O -t -d /dev/st0 -o -0 -I "/" -E "/home/export/backup" -N


First problem: backup is started by cron, running unattended. Every night I get an email with warning message:

Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-var doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-home doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
It comes from stderr of "fdisk -l". In previous Ubuntu version, fdisk -l was skipping LVM volumes. Not anymore in 12.04...


Second problem: I tried to do a backup with "-k FAILSAFE", but it didn't work. Actually, it looks like a file is missing in the mindi package. When I start mindi manually and select to not use my own kernel I immediatly get the following error:

Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v2.1.2-r3018
Latest Mindi is available from http://www.mondorescue.org
BusyBox sources are available from http://www.busybox.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mindi-BusyBox v1.18.5-r3018 (2012-06-05 03:36:02 CEST) multi-call binary.
Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk ([y]/n) ?n
INFO: I shall include Mindi's failsafe kernel, not your kernel, in the boot disks.
      However, you are still running your kernel. If Mindi fails to create your
      disks then it may still be a result of a problem with your kernel.
bzip2: Can't open input file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
FATAL ERROR. Cannot unzip lib.tar.bz2
Please e-mail a copy of /var/log/mindi.log to the mailing list.
See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information.
WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file.

As you already guessed, the file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2 doesn't exist. I tried purging and reinstalling the mindi and mindi-busybox packages, but it didn't help.



Joel Kociolek,
France Création.




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Was a good idea :-)
Now in SVN as rev 3051 !

Thanks,
Bruno.

Gattegno, Victor (CPR&Q GCC - ISS/SW Tower) said on Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:14:59AM +0000:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> It seems a good idea to submit your patch through a trac ticket.
> http://trac.mondorescue.org
> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
> Rgds.
> Victor
> From: Ross, Matthew S [mailto:mat...@lm...]
> Sent: mercredi 17 octobre 2012 20:37
> To: Mondo mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] Restore via Serial Console
> 
> I was able to get this working via a change to GetShell in rcS by searching for the console boot parameter in the command line and exec'ing sh to the provided tty in the console parameter if it exists.
> 
> I can open a trac ticket and provide the patch if there is no other way to get this working with the boot environment as is.
> 
> From: Ross, Matthew S
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:37 PM
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: Restore via Serial Console
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to get mondo-rescue working through a serial console when booted from the restoration media; the environment in which will be used will be mainly a headless one. From various other posts, I have tried setting serial=/dev/ttyS0 and console=ttyS0 which does indeed get me output through the serial connection during rcS execution.
> 
> Unfortunately, as soon as GetShell is launched all IO reverts to tty1 and given the exec there is no way around it I can see.
> 
> Has anyone tried and had luck with this before?
> 
> Help would be appreciated.
> 
> Matt

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Hello,

There are some fixes finding their way to mondo right now for a better
SLES 10/11 support. In your case, seems the root FS is not found. Could
you also provide the log files please ?

Bruno.

Dir...@Be... said on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:00:34AM +0000:

> Dear all,
> my mondorecue.iso  runs into a kernel panic while booting see screenshow below..
> It is a HP Proliant DL380 Gen 8
> SLES11 SP2.
> Any ideas ?
> 
> I try this one
> 
> Server:~# mondoarchive -O -V -i -s 4480m -d /mondoarchiv -I /PZIR/users/ABCD -T /mondoarchiv  -l GRUB

I guess you know that it won't work (once your problem solved) with this
-I option.

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 I am wanting to install Mondo on my Suse Linux 10 sp3 box 64bit.

I understand I need to install mindi-busybox first, then mindi and finally
mondo

I am looking in the sles/10/x86_64 on the ftp site and was wondering what
versions of each I need to install for a first time install.

Is there anything else I should have preinstalled beforehand also?

Thank you for your time.

Paul



                                                                           
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Hi,

I'm using mondorescue for one of my clients and we recently updated his servers to Ubuntu 12.04.
The versions used are the most recent prepackaged provided for Ubuntu 12.04 i386 :
mondo 3.0.2-1
mindi 2.1.2-1
mindi-busybox 1.18.5-2

The backup is done on a HP DAT Drive (with OBDR)

mondoarchive is started like that:

mondoarchive -O -t -d /dev/st0 -o -0 -I "/" -E "/home/export/backup" -N


First problem: backup is started by cron, running unattended. Every night I get an email with warning message:

Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-var doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-home doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
It comes from stderr of "fdisk -l". In previous Ubuntu version, fdisk -l was skipping LVM volumes. Not anymore in 12.04...


Second problem: I tried to do a backup with "-k FAILSAFE", but it didn't work. Actually, it looks like a file is missing in the mindi package. When I start mindi manually and select to not use my own kernel I immediatly get the following error:

Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v2.1.2-r3018
Latest Mindi is available from http://www.mondorescue.org
BusyBox sources are available from http://www.busybox.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mindi-BusyBox v1.18.5-r3018 (2012-06-05 03:36:02 CEST) multi-call binary.
Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk ([y]/n) ?n
INFO: I shall include Mindi's failsafe kernel, not your kernel, in the boot disks.
      However, you are still running your kernel. If Mindi fails to create your
      disks then it may still be a result of a problem with your kernel.
bzip2: Can't open input file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
FATAL ERROR. Cannot unzip lib.tar.bz2
Please e-mail a copy of /var/log/mindi.log to the mailing list.
See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information.
WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file.

As you already guessed, the file /usr/lib/mindi/lib.tar.bz2 doesn't exist. I tried purging and reinstalling the mindi and mindi-busybox packages, but it didn't help.



Joel Kociolek,
France Création.

Hi Matthew,

It seems a good idea to submit your patch through a trac ticket.
http://trac.mondorescue.org

My 2 cents.

Rgds.
Victor
From: Ross, Matthew S [mailto:mat...@lm...]
Sent: mercredi 17 octobre 2012 20:37
To: Mondo mailing list
Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] Restore via Serial Console

I was able to get this working via a change to GetShell in rcS by searching for the console boot parameter in the command line and exec'ing sh to the provided tty in the console parameter if it exists.

I can open a trac ticket and provide the patch if there is no other way to get this working with the boot environment as is.

From: Ross, Matthew S
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:37 PM
To: mon...@li...
Subject: Restore via Serial Console

Hi All,

I am trying to get mondo-rescue working through a serial console when booted from the restoration media; the environment in which will be used will be mainly a headless one. From various other posts, I have tried setting serial=/dev/ttyS0 and console=ttyS0 which does indeed get me output through the serial connection during rcS execution.

Unfortunately, as soon as GetShell is launched all IO reverts to tty1 and given the exec there is no way around it I can see.

Has anyone tried and had luck with this before?

Help would be appreciated.

Matt

I was able to get this working via a change to GetShell in rcS by searching for the console boot parameter in the command line and exec'ing sh to the provided tty in the console parameter if it exists.

I can open a trac ticket and provide the patch if there is no other way to get this working with the boot environment as is.

From: Ross, Matthew S
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:37 PM
To: mon...@li...
Subject: Restore via Serial Console

Hi All,

I am trying to get mondo-rescue working through a serial console when booted from the restoration media; the environment in which will be used will be mainly a headless one. From various other posts, I have tried setting serial=/dev/ttyS0 and console=ttyS0 which does indeed get me output through the serial connection during rcS execution.

Unfortunately, as soon as GetShell is launched all IO reverts to tty1 and given the exec there is no way around it I can see.

Has anyone tried and had luck with this before?

Help would be appreciated.

Matt

Hi All,

I am trying to get mondo-rescue working through a serial console when booted from the restoration media; the environment in which will be used will be mainly a headless one. From various other posts, I have tried setting serial=/dev/ttyS0 and console=ttyS0 which does indeed get me output through the serial connection during rcS execution.

Unfortunately, as soon as GetShell is launched all IO reverts to tty1 and given the exec there is no way around it I can see.

Has anyone tried and had luck with this before?

Help would be appreciated.

Matt

Hi,

 I'm using the latest versions of the stable mondo/mindi packages and am having problems restoring sparse files. Using either afio or star on RHEL5 the sparse files appear to be getting restored with their full length occupied on the filesystem (rather than being sparse).

 There was a trac opened for this a while back but this was closed as mondoarchive now support the star archive option. The TODO suggests that star performance was bad and that afio should be preferred. Is there any way to support sparse files in mondorescue or is there anyway to pass the --sparse option to star?

 Thanks,
 Bob

Hello Mondoers,

A first version of 3.0.3 is now available for test at
ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test

Not all probrlems reported here have been solved yet, hopefully this
will help converge. Info at http://trac.mondorescue.org/milestone/3.0.3

Bruno.
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On 8/10/2012 6:35 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:

> Unfortunately, restore didn't finish correctly...

All automatic restore attempts failed. However, interactive restore 
(without any changes on questions) was successful.

I attach mondoarchive.log and mondorestore.log for your reference.

Regards,
Nick

On 8/10/2012 2:53 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:

> OK, I tried with mindi-busybox-1.18.5-1.rhel6.x86_64 and it worked fine.

Unfortunately, restore didn't finish correctly. (Note: I am restoring on 
another VM with slightly less disk space.)

Find attached screenshots with errors, with most significant #Χ2 (where 
restore hungs completely).

I have successfully restored multiple CentOS 5 backups in the past. This 
is my first attempt with CentOS 6, and it's not going well, I am afraid.

All restores are done on KVM-based VMs, via Java-based console.

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.
Nick

On 8/10/2012 2:26 μμ, Bruno Cornec wrote:

> Please use 1.18.5 instead. And take it at the same place as the other
> pakages.

OK, I tried with mindi-busybox-1.18.5-1.rhel6.x86_64 and it worked fine.

Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Nick

Nikolaos Milas said on Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:23:32PM +0300:
> I have taken a full backup on CentOS 6 using:
> 
> mindi-busybox-1.7.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64

Please use 1.18.5 instead. And take it at the same place as the other
pakages.

Bruno.
-- 
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Hi,

I have taken a full backup on CentOS 6 using:

mondo-3.0.2-1.rhel6.x86_64
mindi-busybox-1.7.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64
mindi-2.1.3-1.rhel6.x86_64

See attached zipped mondoarchive.log.

I am trying to restore using "nuke" and I get a kernel panic error (see 
screenshot attached).

Can you please advise on how to get through this?

Thanks,
Nick

mondoarchive -O -i -p `host‐name`-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%s` -d /home/c0mputerking/ -s 4470m -N -E "/var/lib/vz/dump/|/var/lib/vz/template/iso" -9

Hi,

In the mondo busybox shell (Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc.) you can see the commands embedded in busybox through the command:
# busybox

Here is an example of tftp transfer

  tftp transfer, from the mondo busybox shell to a tftp server

  *   # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up   (if necessary)
  *   # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1   (if necessary)
  *   # cd /var/log
  *   # tftp -p -l mondorestore.log tftp_server_ip_address
  tftp server setup (RHEL 4)

  *   # mkdir /tmp/tftp ; chmod 777 /tmp/tftp
  *   # /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -v -l -c -s /tmp/tftp
  *   If tftp server -c option is not used, tftp command can return "tftp: server error: (1) File not found", a solution is to have a file with the same name and with the write right set (otherwise another error could occur) in the tftp server directory : # touch /tmp/tftp/mondorestore.log ; chmod 777 /tmp/tftp/mondorestore.log
Otherwise you can also mount a NFS directory exported by a NFS server, and copy mondorestore.log to it.

Rgds,
Victor

From: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [mailto:ry...@co...]
Sent: vendredi 5 octobre 2012 11:07
To: Mondo mailing list
Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] lvm to smaller drive possible?

Gezz what a hassle tried the usb stick but then mondo wants to restore to it instead of the harddrive guessing the log would have other problems then.

tftp never alot of fun think i used that one to try and debrick a ddwrt router once remember it being a huge headache think i did actually get the router working again.

Anyways i managed to get the network up and working on the mondoretore box, but cant get the tftp command to do anything use full there. As the only other box in the house right now is windows 7 i setup a tftp server on it.  Also tried a tftp client ---> mondo rescue but get connection refused of coarse didnt really expect that to work.  Thought about trying scp but not sure what to user for a username and password on the mondo box or it would even work. cant go the other way because i have windows

Guess the instructions you promised might come in handy about now

PS i might have a ubuntu machine around somewhere if i really need it.




________________________________
From: "Victor Gattegno (CPR&Q GCC - ISS/SW Tower)" <vic...@hp...>
To: "Mondo mailing list" <mon...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October, 2012 11:40:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] lvm to smaller drive possible?
Hello,

The mondorestore.log, and eventually the mondoarchive.log (included in your backup), could help.

During restore, it's possible to shift to a busybox shell through Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc. (Alt-F1 will allow you later to return to mondorestore GUI screen), then you can save mondorestore.log by tftp it to a tftp server.
If you need more details I can email it.

Another solution : if you connected an USB key before making a choice in the "mondorestore choice menu" (interactive, compare, expert...), through a new shell (Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc.) you should be able to create a directory, mount the vfat USB key on it, and copy the /var/log/mondorestore.log file to the USB key.

Regards,
Victor

From: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [mailto:ry...@co...]
Sent: mercredi 3 octobre 2012 02:27
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] lvm to smaller drive possible?

Hello all I am having trouble doing a mondo restore onto a smaller harddrive the problem seems to be with lmv i think, and i found a bug/feature request from along long long time ago, and was woundering if this has been fixed/added.

http://trac.mondorescue.org/ticket/68  hoping milestone 4.0.2 is a typo for 3.0.2 as i am using version v3.0.0.2 r3018 of mondo

I have tried to retore using interactive mode mondo nicely changed the size of harddisk and partitions except for /dev/dm-2 which i EDITED manully to look like this
/dev/dm-2        /var/lib       ext3     100000

here is the orignal disk layout before i edited the size of dm-2
/dev/sda2     lvm        lvm        238290            <---- size of new hardrive used to be a 1T disk now 250G mondo autodetected and changed
/dev/dm-0    /             ext3        98304             <---- my root partition obiously around 100G should be fine same as original disk
/dev/dm-2    /var/lib   ext3        834567           <---- PROBLEM too big so i have EDITED it to 100000 should make things work right.
/dev/sda1     /boot       ext3       127
/dev/dm-1    swap       swap      4096

Thing move along with the installer fdisking and formating but then i get error could not mount /dev/dm-2 shall i abort  I click yes and read threw the log

NOTE i do not have cut and past so i have just handwritten over what i think might help may be errors and omissions, but i did the best i could suppose i could put log on usb stick or something.

lib/mondo-devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1004: Error getting size of /dev/dm-2 no such file or directory
lib/mondo-devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1027: Error getting size of /dev/dm-2 failed to open for reading
then something about
failed to get geometry using old mode /dev/dm-2  ---> -1 or -1 -> -1
and
dm-2 will be setup later

also some errors in my fdisk

partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range

warning partion 4 empty type
warning partion 3 empty type


Please help and thank you in advance

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Gezz what a hassle tried the usb stick but then mondo wants to restore to it instead of the harddrive guessing the log would have other problems then. 

tftp never alot of fun think i used that one to try and debrick a ddwrt router once remember it being a huge headache think i did actually get the router working again. 

Anyways i managed to get the network up and working on the mondoretore box, but cant get the tftp command to do anything use full there. As the only other box in the house right now is windows 7 i setup a tftp server on it. Also tried a tftp client ---> mondo rescue but get connection refused of coarse didnt really expect that to work. Thought about trying scp but not sure what to user for a username and password on the mondo box or it would even work. cant go the other way because i have windows 

Guess the instructions you promised might come in handy about now 

PS i might have a ubuntu machine around somewhere if i really need it. 





----- Original Message -----

From: "Victor Gattegno (CPR&Q GCC - ISS/SW Tower)" <victor_ gattegno @hp.com> 
To: " Mondo mailing list" < mondo -devel@lists. sourceforge .net> 
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October, 2012 11:40:11 AM 
Subject: Re: [ Mondo -devel] lvm to smaller drive possible? 



Hello, 

The mondorestore .log, and eventually the mondoarchive .log (included in your backup), could help. 

During restore, it's possible to shift to a busybox shell through Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc. (Alt-F1 will allow you later to return to mondorestore GUI screen), then you can save mondorestore .log by tftp it to a tftp server. 
If you need more details I can email it. 

Another solution : if you connected an USB key before making a choice in the " mondorestore choice menu" (interactive, compare, expert...), through a new shell (Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc.) you should be able to create a directory, mount the vfat USB key on it, and copy the /var/log/ mondorestore .log file to the USB key. 

Regards, 
Victor 



From: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [ mailto : ryan @ computerking .ca] 
Sent: mercredi 3 octobre 2012 02:27 
To: mondo -devel@lists. sourceforge .net 
Subject: [ Mondo -devel] lvm to smaller drive possible? 


Hello all I am having trouble doing a mondo restore onto a smaller harddrive the problem seems to be with lmv i think, and i found a bug/feature request from along long long time ago, and was woundering if this has been fixed/added. 

http :// trac . mondorescue .org/ticket/68 hoping milestone 4.0.2 is a typo for 3.0.2 as i am using version v3.0.0.2 r3018 of mondo 

I have tried to retore using interactive mode mondo nicely changed the size of harddisk and partitions except for / dev /dm-2 which i EDITED manully to look like this 
/ dev /dm-2 /var/lib ext3 100000 

here is the orignal disk layout before i edited the size of dm-2 
/ dev /sda2 lvm lvm 238290 <---- size of new hardrive used to be a 1T disk now 250G mondo autodetected and changed 
/ dev /dm-0 / ext3 98304 <---- my root partition obiously around 100G should be fine same as original disk 
/ dev /dm-2 /var/lib ext3 834567 <---- PROBLEM too big so i have EDITED it to 100000 should make things work right. 
/ dev /sda1 /boot ext3 127 
/ dev /dm-1 swap swap 4096 

Thing move along with the installer fdisking and formating but then i get error c ould not mount / dev /dm-2 shall i abort I click yes and read threw the log 

NOTE i do not have cut and past so i have just handwritten over what i think might help may be errors and omissions, but i did the best i could suppose i could put log on usb stick or something. 

lib/ mondo -devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1004: Error getting size of / dev /dm-2 no such file or directory 
lib/ mondo -devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1027: Error getting size of / dev /dm-2 failed to open for reading 
then something about 
failed to get geometry using old mode / dev /dm-2 ---> -1 or -1 -> -1 
and 
dm-2 will be setup later 

also some errors in my fdisk 

partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 
partition number (1-4) value out of range 

warning partion 4 empty type 
warning partion 3 empty type 


Please help and thank you in advance 




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Hello,

The mondorestore.log, and eventually the mondoarchive.log (included in your backup), could help.

During restore, it's possible to shift to a busybox shell through Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc. (Alt-F1 will allow you later to return to mondorestore GUI screen), then you can save mondorestore.log by tftp it to a tftp server.
If you need more details I can email it.

Another solution : if you connected an USB key before making a choice in the "mondorestore choice menu" (interactive, compare, expert...), through a new shell (Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc.) you should be able to create a directory, mount the vfat USB key on it, and copy the /var/log/mondorestore.log file to the USB key.

Regards,
Victor

From: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [mailto:ry...@co...]
Sent: mercredi 3 octobre 2012 02:27
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] lvm to smaller drive possible?

Hello all I am having trouble doing a mondo restore onto a smaller harddrive the problem seems to be with lmv i think, and i found a bug/feature request from along long long time ago, and was woundering if this has been fixed/added.

http://trac.mondorescue.org/ticket/68  hoping milestone 4.0.2 is a typo for 3.0.2 as i am using version v3.0.0.2 r3018 of mondo

I have tried to retore using interactive mode mondo nicely changed the size of harddisk and partitions except for /dev/dm-2 which i EDITED manully to look like this
/dev/dm-2        /var/lib       ext3     100000

here is the orignal disk layout before i edited the size of dm-2
/dev/sda2     lvm        lvm        238290            <---- size of new hardrive used to be a 1T disk now 250G mondo autodetected and changed
/dev/dm-0    /             ext3        98304             <---- my root partition obiously around 100G should be fine same as original disk
/dev/dm-2    /var/lib   ext3        834567           <---- PROBLEM too big so i have EDITED it to 100000 should make things work right.
/dev/sda1     /boot       ext3       127
/dev/dm-1    swap       swap      4096

Thing move along with the installer fdisking and formating but then i get error could not mount /dev/dm-2 shall i abort  I click yes and read threw the log

NOTE i do not have cut and past so i have just handwritten over what i think might help may be errors and omissions, but i did the best i could suppose i could put log on usb stick or something.

lib/mondo-devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1004: Error getting size of /dev/dm-2 no such file or directory
lib/mondo-devices.c -> get_phys_size_of_drive #1027: Error getting size of /dev/dm-2 failed to open for reading
then something about
failed to get geometry using old mode /dev/dm-2  ---> -1 or -1 -> -1
and
dm-2 will be setup later

also some errors in my fdisk

partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range
partition number (1-4)  value out of range

warning partion 4 empty type
warning partion 3 empty type


Please help and thank you in advance


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