[TriLUG] Mondo Rescue restore question

[Janyne Kizer]

I recently tried Mondo Rescue for cloning servers.  It is truly awesome
at this task.  It would also be great for disaster recovery.  I have a
question though.  I am using the tape/floppy method and I would like to
restore individual files/directories from tape without rebooting.  If we
can get this working -- however clunky -- I think that it might be a
good thing.  That way if a remote site needs disaster recovery due to
hurricane/flood/hardware failure we can easily have them boot from
floppy and put in their last tape.  In 30 minutes they'd have a running
server (assuming similar hardware).  The problem is we if can't use
Mondo for daily backups if we can't restore individual files/directories
remotely (after someone onsite puts in the appropriate tape, of course).

I thought that Mondo used afio so I tried afio -t to get a listing of
what is on the tape and it does go out and try to read the tape but no
go.  I get the following errors:

afio: "/dev/st0" [offset 6]: Fatal error:
afio: "/dev/st0": Unrecognizable archive

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Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services
Phone: (919) 515-3609