Mondo Bare Metal Backup

[chrisc0v0c]

Hi Guys,

Had a fright today on a pbxinaflash install at my office, luckily after a few reboot attemps the kernal kill message and others relating to sata disk not found (basically) went away and the machine booted just fine.

However it looks like the drive may well be on its way out!

Now I have a full config backup schedule from freepbx but I want to ghost the whole drive and basically mirror it on a spare HD in the PBX linux machine, then if i does go down I can simply plug the second sata drive in and unplug the first!

However I found this mondo guide:-

http://pbxinaflash.org/files/u1/manualdiskbackup.pdf

But it seems out of date as the wget mondo link doesnt even work, so could you guys post a link to one we should be using?

The thread on here, roughly page 4 or 5 about Mondo guide 2 hits a dead end straight away too as the pdf guide link is even dead!

Please help,

Thanks in advance. Chris

EDIT:-

Anyone? It could die tomorrow!

 

[gizmosrcool]

Here is a doc for the whole disk backup. http://www.pbxinaflash.org/piafscripts/Asterisk 1.4/Backups/Whole Disk Backups

The url and the install and backup script should still work.

I have used ghost and also Clonezilla @ http://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla is nice because you do not need a dedicated ghost server and it seems to work as well. I run it on a few of my machines every now and then and save the image to small raid5 appliance that supports pc shares and ftp.

I also run a script in cron that runs mondo once a week and then moves the file via ftp as well. Can't have too many backups.

 

[chrisc0v0c]

Thanks Gizmosrcool,

I mananged to find the guide, for want of looking it was right in front of me!

Eventually I managed to get it all set up to goto a SMB xp share, I do get a emergencyboot & mondorescue iso in the share but the problem I am having is that when I run ./disk-backup.cron nothing seems to happen and no files in the SMB share.

Now I understand that it takes a while but I have now managed to twice successfully execute a back up and have managed that by:-

1st success left machine for approx 4hrs and eventually in putty pressed ctrlX and suddenley returned is share mounted copying to //IP/sharefldr (there abouts), and in the same instant I see the two files in the XP SMB share start to appear and build in size, 5mins later and I returned to bash command.

2nd time I ran the .cron again and after 2hrs I thought I'll just tap "return", low and behold that very instant same as before when I hit ctrlX, share mounted, copying etc and finished in 5mins back to bash and ISO's in share.

My question is why is it waiting for my interaction?

Does this mean I cant run the .cron as a pure automatic process?

I tried everything as per original pdf explantion, but I should advise I use a different mount point, not /mnt/smbmondo but a automatic mount I setup a short while ago in /mymounts/CHRIS

In other words I am backing up to a share I can always get to in a bash prompt with cd /mymounts/CHRIS

Any advice?

BTW I'm going to look into clonezilla now, although what I love about PIAF is to not play away from the teams magic if I can help it!.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[etech3]

Chris

A few things to try:
turn off your cron for now
go into mindi and mondo and delete the ISOs
If you have a monitor hooked up to your piaf run
mindi straight from the CLI and see what it does ( after the questions), you should have a ISO in mindi.
next run mondoarchive straight from the CLI and save to the piaf hard drive. when finished, you should have the ISOs in mondo.

you can do this from putty as well.

Do this before moving on to share folders.

I have done this in about 15-40 minutes on older equipment with a fresh install with no changes or addons.