Hello, I want to switch from DVDs as a backup medium to a usb flash drive. I have been using Mondo but get tired of feeding it DVD+RWs. I purchased a 128GB flash drive. I can't get Mondo to write to it. I want to be able to make this device bootable. Do I need it reformat it from a Windows file system to ext4? I never had to format a blank DVD previously. Is there a better solution for backing up a home system to some sort of external media? TIA
TE Dukes wrote:> I purchased a 128GB flash drive. I can't get Mondo to write to it. I want > to be able to make this device bootable. Do I need it reformat it from a > Windows file system to ext4? I never had to format a blank DVD previously. > > Is there a better solution for backing up a home system to some sort of > external media?I don't know if it is better, but I use BackupPC. This has an archive option to copy the latest backup to somewhere else. I use it to backup to an external drive every fortnight or so. (I backup every night to a different hard drive on my CentOS machine.) -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:44 PM, TE Dukes wrote:> > > Is there a better solution for backing up a home system to some sort of > external media? > > >Not tested myself yet, but RH EL, and so CentOS, introduced support for Relax-and-Recover in version 6.8: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.8_Release_Notes/new_features_system_and_subscription_management.html See also http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/ Based on http://relax-and-recover.org/usage/ it should be feasible... HIH, Gianluca
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Gianluca Cecchi Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 8:16 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Backup Question/Solution On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:44 PM, TE Dukes wrote:> > > Is there a better solution for backing up a home system to some sort > of external media? > > >Not tested myself yet, but RH EL, and so CentOS, introduced support for Relax-and-Recover in version 6.8: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm l/6.8_Release_Notes/new_features_system_and_subscription_management.html See also http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/ Based on http://relax-and-recover.org/usage/ it should be feasible... HIH, Gianluca Had time today to check Relax and Recover. I screwed up a 128GB flash drive trying to get Mondo working but was able to a rescue disc and backup to my file system where I was able to copy both to another computer. The backup file can't be on the same partition as the rescue iso. Have another flash drive on the way. Thanks!!