Mondo rescue backup software

[demian]

I guess I could just try it myself but I figured if somebody knows the answer I can spare myself the installation and a kernel re-compilation:

The documentation for mondo says I will need floppy disk support built into the kernel. Now I don't even have a floppy drive in my computer much less kernel support for this non-existing (and IMO obsolete) device. So the question is can I still use mondo to backup my system to a set of bootable CDs?

If the answer's "no" then what software do you recommend to do full backups of a linux system to a set of CD-RWs?

[Stix]

I use Mondo on some production servers and I've never needed any floppy's. The cd's made are bootable. To restore a system just boot off the first cd and follow the instuctions, it's that easy.

[demian]

Thanks. I tried it myself by now. And the floppy part didn't give me any trouble (seems to be old documentation) but the backup didn't work.

I called mondoarchive with the following flags:

mondoarchive -Oi -E /data -d /data/backup -k FAILSAFE -s 700m -S /data/tmp -T /data/tmp

(The FAILSAFE thing is - according to the docs - needed on debian. I tried it without this option with the same result.) It goes through a lot of disk activity, tells me, it's preparing a file catalogue, says something about creating data+boot disks, calls mindi and then just sits there. No CPU or disk activity for at least 30min when I aborted. It did mount a(n empty) file loopback to a directory that what created in the scratch dir I specified but that's about all. As far as I can tell it didn't copy any data much less created a usable iso.

I might try their latest version (debian sarge has 1.41) and see if that works any better for me.