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This program can do simple backups and syncs over a network or locally.It uses tar and rsync in the background. Mephisto Backup was made with the Java programming language. The key feature of this program is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC.
This program can do simple backups and syncs over a network or locally.It uses tar and rsync in the background. Mephisto Backup was made with the Java programming language. The key feature of this program is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC.
Features:
1. Backup your operating system to a Live CD.
2. Restore your OS from the Mephisto Live CD. The live CD is used by Mephisto Backup to Restore your system only.
3. Displays the size of your backup ISO and TAR file after each backup job is ran.
4. Blank DVD-RW’s.
5. Sync between locations and save backup configurations.
6. Burn the backup image to the live cd within the program.
7. Backup Schedules.
Additional things to mention:
1. This program is great to use in virtual machines because you can easily generate your virtual machine to a restore disc and deploy the image to any computer!
2. A single source for everything that you have to do: Backup -> Create a disc -> Burn. All in a single application!
I think you should remove the word " best "
From the description I understand that re-imaging will not work unless your root partition is sda1
So, mine is sda5, and thus I can not use it
Where does : best : come in ?
Why the re-imaging section of the program will *NOT* work for you:
1. Your using LVM.
2. Your using UUID instead of the traditional naming scheme: /dev/sdX
(Simply modify /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to solve this problem. Mephisto should search for this)
3. The root partition is not /dev/sda1.
4. Your using a different filesystem than ext2 or ext3.
(Code can be changed in 1 second to support the rest.)
5. Your not using Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or basically an operating system that uses something else besides mkinitcpio, mkinitrd, or mkinitramfs to generate a kernel initrd image.
6. You have old kernels and initrd images in /boot. Please remove them before backing up your system and creating a live cd.
(Mephisto v1.5+ scans for multiple initrd’s and warns the user)
"Clonezilla" my favorite, does not support as yet
1. an restore backup ISO
2. backing up the system only
3. restoring the OS partition to a computer with a different architecture/hardware and have it work.
When Mephisto achieves the the functionally Clonezilla has already with these extra options, I may give it a try.
I typically use straight partimage for most of my imaging needs.
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Where does : best : come in ?
Why the re-imaging section of the program will *NOT* work for you:
1. Your using LVM.
2. Your using UUID instead of the traditional naming scheme: /dev/sdX
(Simply modify /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to solve this problem. Mephisto should search for this)
3. The root partition is not /dev/sda1.
4. Your using a different filesystem than ext2 or ext3.
(Code can be changed in 1 second to support the rest.)
5. Your not using Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or basically an operating system that uses something else besides mkinitcpio, mkinitrd, or mkinitramfs to generate a kernel initrd image.
6. You have old kernels and initrd images in /boot. Please remove them before backing up your system and creating a live cd.
(Mephisto v1.5+ scans for multiple initrd’s and warns the user)