>> I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the >> entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor >> (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually >> bails out before it completes the backup. > > > And what does mondoarchive.log say? >
mondoarchive gets up to here then nothing happens (for several hours): ---evalcall---E--- ---evalcall---1--- Dividing filelist into sets ---evalcall---2--- TASK: [********************] 97% done; 0:01 to go ---evalcall---E--- ---evalcall---1--- Dividing filelist into sets ---evalcall---2--- TASK: [********************] 98% done; 0:01 to go ---evalcall---E--- Your backup will occupy one meeeeellion media! (maybe 10) Done. Copying Mondo's core files to the scratch directory Done. Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/sda /var/tmp/mondo-temp/tmp.mondo.9418/tmp.mondo.8981 The log gets this far then nothing happens: # tail /var/log/mondo-archive.log You are using Mindi-Linux v2.2.0-r881 to make boot+data disks Analyzing dependency requirements Done. Making complete dependency list 100% |cp: cannot stat `/usr/games/petris': No such file or directory Cannot find /usr/games/petris. You will not be able to play petris during restore. Done. Analyzing your keyboard's configuration. Adding the following keyboard mapping tables: Done. Dropping i686-optimized libraries if appropriate. I am running mondoarchive with the following options: mondoarchive -OiF -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 -d /var/tmp/mondoarchive -S /var/tmp/mondo-scratch -T /var/tmp/mondo-temp -E "/home /mnt /root/packages /var/cache/apt/archives" I get the same result when I run it without the -k option -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hvhjcc$ju...@dough.gmane.org