[mythtv-users] OT: Disaster Recovery - A Useful Tip

[Chad]

On 8/7/06, Rick Sauer <mantarogue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using a product called Mondo Rescue for a while now, and I thought
> I'd share it with our little community here.
>
> It's a bare-metal backup and restore for linux, covering nearly all
> distro's.
>
> You can find info and download from here.
>
> http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml
>
> I've used in RH both enterprise and 9.0 and also FC4 and FC5 with great
> success.
>
> It backs up all live data and creates a bootable CD/DVD for restore
> purposes. Runs in a console with a GUI or via the command line.
>
> Hope you find it handy.
> _______________________________________________

Excellent, thanks for the tip.  Any mondo users with massive Myth
directories out there?  I'm wondering if using mondo to backup/restore
my system will be cost effective.  What I mean is does it allow you to
skip certain directories, such as my recordings directory?  If I am in
a squeeze and I have to dump/restore a system, I'd rather do it with
1-2 DVDs rather than what... 150?  I can backup my recordings
directory to other file servers on the network, but I figure Mondo
would be nice for per-system backup/restore disasters.

Thanks for any insight :)

-Chad