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Recovery disks for configured ubuntu system

Asked by James J H Rooney

I want to be able to make recovery DVDs for Ubuntu systems which I have configured with other software. These would be for use by others whose systems I maintain. I have several teenagers to deal with and it gets very tedious when they crash them with viruses etc. I want to be able to take a DVD backup of the system that is bootable as an one step install. Such a system would be very useful to anyone who maintains customer systems. In those situations it would be usefull if there was a choice of DVD or hard disk.

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Best Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#1

Hi:

You can have a look at mondo or mindi. I haven't use them but I heard they are quite good. Or you could use aptoncd. But I think you are looking for something like mondo:
http://www.mondorescue.com/

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James J H Rooney (dbmsjim) said : 		#2

This certainly lookd like it will fill the bill. I am considering it solved unless I run into a problem, in which case I will pose it a an addendum to the originsl question.

I have followed Linux for some time but not plunged in seriously until now. The messy install opf Media Center and what I have leared about Vista was kind of a final straw. The amazingly easy install of Ubuntu ws a real eye opener. Boot, shutdown and program load times less than a third of Win!!!!

I started in computers in 1964 on a Bendix G-15 if anyone remembers. Got involved with micros on an OSI system, started a business with them. Had a Shugart 5Mb disk. Sounded like a 747 taking off when winding yup. Then Billings with OASIS, then ONYX with OASIS. Now there was a real sweet OS. Very stable. Would be up for weeks, just shut down to clean the dust out.

Designed a DBMS on that using direct files (aka relative) using doublly linked lists with the ability to add expansion records, lists etc. Designed so tha all indexes could be smashed and rebuilt. Fast read, slower writes, record and file locking, disk channel oriented design. You could link andy record field to any other. Textual database also. Ran out of money and time, but on a 4MHz Z-80 (8bit CPU) on a non indexed search with wild cards it could process 500 records per min.

Essentially, I designed it assumming RAM and Disk were of negligable cost, people expensive and communications pipes of low volume compared to CPU <-> Disk volume.