Introduction ============ MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD. This is the Mindi part of MondoRescue. Mindi is responsible for creating boot media used by MondoRescue. The part of MondoReccue responsible carrying out the actual backups and restores is called Mondo and available as a separate package. MondoRescue is reliable. It backs up your server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. MondoRescue is in use by numerous blue-chip enterprises and large organizations, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users. MondoRescue is comprehensive. MondoRescue supports LVM, RAID, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, and can support additional file systems easily. It supports adjustments in disk geometry, including migration from non-RAID to RAID. MondoRescue runs on all major Linux distributions and FreeBSD and is getting better all the time. You may even use it to backup non-Linux partitions, such as NTFS. Installation ============ You can get the latest packages from ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org Please see file 'INSTALL' for instructions about how to build and install Mindi. Note that your distribution may already contain MondoRescue, so all you may have to do is install the mindi package and you are all set. Documentation ============= Various documentation is available on the MondoRescue website at http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/docs.html. This documentation may also be available locally under /usr/share/doc/mondo-<version> or similar (or under /usr/local). Further to that, there is a manpage for mindi(8). Support ======= Apart from the above-mentioned documentation, there is a Wiki with growing contents at the following URL: http://trac.mondorescue.org Also, there is a mailing list mondo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Please go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel for further information and the opportunity to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list.
