Monday, February 8, 2010

Data Backup In Linux: How to Use mondoarchive Command


Data loss often leads you towards a terrible situation and No one claim to own a system that is 100 percent secure towards the data loss,Whatever hardware and system configuration he have. but this situation can be prevented by creating a reliable and complete backup. Mondoarchieve command is used in Linux operating system,for this purpose. It backups a subset of all your files in the system,it even the images of non-Linux file system as ISO images in CD.

In case of critical data loss situations, it easily restore all your data and information, taking your system to its original state if required.

Two parameters for different operations are provided by this utility

-V: This parameter lets mondoarchive command verifies backup against the live Linux file system.

-O: This parameter lets mondoarchive command to take a backup of entire file system .

mondoarchive command can be used to make this auto-detect as many configuration settings as possible, then create backup and verify the operating system or the subset after the process.

To restore data from backup, you can either run the Mondorestore from command line or boot your system from floppies/CD generated while backing up the data.

In case if the Of damage of this backup,you can not restore data from backup and need arises for Linux Recovery . The Data Recovery Linux in such situations is possible through the use of third-party applications.

These utilities are known as Linux Data Recovery software. They use Efficient scanning techniques to methodically scan the entire hard disk and retrieve all the lost data.

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