How to Use the Mondo fault recovery tool to clone and back up Linux systems

Mondo Rescue is an open-source free fault recovery and backup tool. You can easily create a complete (Linux or Windows) cloned or backed up ISO image, these images can be stored on CD, DVD, tape, USB device, hard disk, and NFS. Mondo Rescue can also be used to quickly restore or redeploy a working image to another system. In case of data loss, you can restore as full system data as possible from the backup media.

The Mondo program can be downloaded for free and released under the GNU Public License (GPL). It has been tested in many Linux releases. This article describes how to install Mondo and how to use Mondo Tools to completely back up your system. Mondo Rescue is a fault recovery and backup solution. System Administrators can completely back up their Linux and Windows File System partitions to CD/DVD, tape, and NFS, you can use the Mondo Restore media function to Restore the entire system at boot time. 1. Install the latest Mondo Rescue installation package (the current version of Mondo is 3.0.3-1) on RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux. Use the "wget" command to download and add "MondoRescue Repository" to your system. The Mondo software library will install binary software packages suitable for your release system, such as afio, buffer, mindi, mindi-busybox, mondo, and mondo-doc if they are available. 1. for RHEL/CentOS/SL 6, 5, 4-32-bit platforms to download "/etc/yum. repos. the MondoRescue software library under d/. The file name is "mondorescue. repo ". Download the correct software library for your Linux OS release.

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 6 - 32-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/6/i386/mondorescue.repo## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 - 32-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/5/i386/mondorescue.repo## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 4 - 32-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/4/i386/mondorescue.repo

2. Used for RHEL/CentOS/SL 6, 5, 4-64-bit platforms

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 6 - 64-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/6/x86_64/mondorescue.repo## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 - 64-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/5/x86_64/mondorescue.repo## On RHEL/CentOS/SL 4 - 64-Bit ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/rhel/4/x86_64/mondorescue.repo

Once you have successfully added the software library, you can use the "yum" command to install the latest Mondo tool.

# yum install mondo

2. Debian users who install MondoRescue1. Debian On Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint can use the "wget" command to capture the MondoRescue software library for Debian 6 and Debian 5 releases. Run the following command to add "mondorescue. sources. list" to the "/etc/apt/sources. list" file to facilitate installation of the Mondo software package.

## On Debian 6 ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/debian/6.0/mondorescue.sources.list# sh -c "cat mondorescue.sources.list >> /etc/apt/sources.list" # apt-get update # apt-get install mondo

## On Debian 5 ### wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/debian/5.0/mondorescue.sources.list# sh -c "cat mondorescue.sources.list >> /etc/apt/sources.list" # apt-get update # apt-get install mondo

2. to install Mondo Rescue on the Ubuntu/Linux Mint platform on Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, or 10.04, or Linux Mint 13, open the terminal, then in "/etc/apt/sources. list file to add the MondoRescue software library. Run the following command to install the Mondo Rescue package.

# wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/`lsb_release -r|awk '{print $2}'`/mondorescue.sources.list# sh -c "cat mondorescue.sources.list >> /etc/apt/sources.list" # apt-get update # apt-get install mondo

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