Linux distributions provide many applications, but the more programs you use, the more laborious reconstructing a system becomes after a fault. Professional backup programs allow sophisticated backup strategies but often entail a time-consuming and laborious reconstruction of the software after a system crash. With the Mondo Rescue snapshot program, you can back up the whole system on various data storage devices at the touch of a button and restore complete installations without the need for extensive reworking, making a system failure a lot less frightening.

Installation

Mondo Rescue already has been through many years of development and maintenance and is therefore available in the form of binary packages [1] for most popular distributions. To install the distribution-specific packages and their dependencies, first add the corresponding repositories into your software manager.

In openSUSE, open the Software Repositories entry in YaST and click on the Add button. Select FTP as the mode of delivery in the new window then enter a name for the new repository: the associated URL is ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/opensuse/<Release>/<arch>, where <arch> is either i386 or x86_64. After clicking Next, YaST imports the corresponding data. You will then find the new repository in the list view. Next, install Mondo using the YaST package manager as you would any other program. If the routines complain about a missing mkisofs package, look for the cdrkit-cdrtools-compat package and install this, too.

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