[mythtv-users] backup device

[Mercury Morris]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:19:24 -0700, Jarod Wilson <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2004 14:56, Mercury Morris wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:15:08 -0400, Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
> >
> > <sigtom at sigtom.com> wrote:
> > > Mercury Morris wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:38:06 -0700, Jarod Wilson <jcw at wilsonet.com>
> wrote:
> > > >>On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:52, Jack Burghardt wrote:
> > > >>>what backup device are you guys using for your system?
> > > >>
> > > >>http://www.mondorescue.org/
> > > >
> > > >Mondo looks like it should almost be required
> > > >for any well-managed installation.  Thanks Jarod,
> > > >for bringing it to the mailing list.
> 
> No problem, though I've actually already mentioned it on the list several
> times. :-)
> 
> > > >After reading thru the HOWTO PDF for Mondo etc.,
> > > >I'm concerned with not being able to find all the
> > > >packages that Mondo requires.  In fact, the very
> > > >first package, afio, seems to have disappeared from
> > > >Red Hat some time after Red Hat 6.0.
> > > >
> > > >Jarod, have you found that afio isn't really needed?
> 
> Its needed.
> 
> > > >Or, if it is needed, where did you find it?
> 
> For Fedora Core 2-specific packages:
> 
> http://boba.fastservers.net/mondo/download/MondoCD/RPMS/FDR/2.0/index.html
> 
> (that's one of the official mirrors, not just some random site)
> 
> > Having now found the missing packages,
> > such as afio, is there any concern about
> > installing packages that are two and a half
> > years old onto up-to-date Fedora Core 2 ?
> 
> If you're downloading them from the link above, there shouldn't be any concern
> at all.
> 
> > I can guess the answer.  All of the missing
> > packages must have installed without any
> > problems and Mondo/Mindi must perform
> > well.  Otherwise, would Jarod have posted?
> 
> Nope. And I even know one of the developers personally, he's a big RH/FC guy,
> works for Pogo Linux here near Seattle, and a member of my LUG(s).
> 
> > I suppose my questions might seem a bit
> > ill-formed and not well thought out.  May be.
> > But when it comes to backup, I have yet to trust
> > anything that I didn't write myself.  I was only
> > trying to get a feel for how much trust Jarod,
> > and any other users of Mondo, have in it.
> 
> Understood. I trust it completely, been using it for over three years now.

Thank you, Jarod, for a complete and reassuring reply.

What irony for me, tho.  This morning, my mythtv system
bit the dust, when I lost one of the two WD2500JD drives.
It was the worst luck, since the surviving drive had only
the /video partition on it.  So, yup, if only I had had Mondo
in place before the bad luck hit, I might have been able to
restore what was a well-running mythtv-0.16 system.

Oh well, it was such fun the first time, it's bound to be
even more fun the second time around.  This time, Mondo
will be right near the top of the list of things to install, after
2.6.8-1.521 is back in place.

Thanks again, Jarod.

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MM