I am compiling mondo now, what i did find useful in the meantime is cdbackup/cdrestore, in a nutshell it seems to be frontend for tar & cdrecord, not perfect but it is safety. -munir On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Nate Straz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:12:30PM -0600, Munir Nassar wrote: > > > 3. Put a sticker on you monitor reminding you to put a blank cd in when > > > you go to bed. > > > > But this is exactly what i want to do, is there no utility that will do > > this for ext2/3? > > Take a look at Mindi and Mondo. > > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ > > From the web page > > Mindi > > Mindi creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images that will let you > perform basic system maintenance on your Linux distro. > > > Mondo > > Mondo backs up your filesystem to CD's. In the event of catastrophic > data loss, you may restore some or all of your system from those CD's, > even if your hard drives are now blank. > > > I tried to use it last night, but it seems my XFS kernel was too big. > If you get it working, share with the group. > > > Nate > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --