Make CD-ROM Recovery
mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another disk, NFS/CIFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. It can restore disks in Software RAID and LVM mode. It supports the One Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) mode, which simulates a bootable CD-ROM on tape.
| Tags | Archiving backup Installation/Setup Compression |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C Unix Shell |
Recent releases
- 05 Sep 2008 14:49
Changes: This release adds support for the initramfs filesystem for booting OpenSuse and FecoraCore releases with the mkCDrec boot CD, dramatically improves slow USB device support, and upgrades busybox to version 1.12.0.
- 21 Nov 2007 10:26
Changes: Default booting of the initial ramdisk happens via the ramfs file system. Support has been added for FedoraCore 7, and BusyBox has been updated to 1.7.2. All #!/bin/sh were replaced by #!/bin/bash so that scripts continue to work under newer Ubuntu versions.
- 20 Jun 2007 05:46
Changes: Busybox was upgraded from version 1.1.1 to 1.4.2. Some minor bugs were fixed. Mandriva 2007, CentOS 5, and RHEL 4 are supported as well.
- 25 Jun 2006 13:11
Changes: The busybox configuration has been changed to avoid the compilation errors on x86_64 and IA-64 architectures. By adding the plugin for Legato Networker, mkCDrec can use another backup/restore program to retrieve the files of the system. The previous plugins (HP Data Protector and IBM TSM) were fixed for the tmpfs file system problem with /dev.
- 28 Mar 2006 13:46
Changes: This release fixes a major bug with the link between mkcdrec and busybox-1.1.0. All binary packages (of version 0.9) are impacted and should download this release to avoid the "chroot not found" issue. Furthermore, the /etc/mkcdrec.conf file is now always read by all routines of mkcdrec. The /etc/mkcdrec.conf file may contain your customised settings and will survive release upgrades.
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Recent commentsDVDs?
Does anybody know if this project supports writable DVDs? It would take A LOT of CD's to back up my linux system.
nice job mkcdrec
I tried mkcdrec and did what the docs said, just make a boot
cd, without backup as a test. It worked perfect. A bootable
cd with mc (yeah), and my own kernels and modules.
This is perfect for making those "Business card" cd's.
Project similar to mondo-rescue
This project is very similar to Mondo-rescue (http://freshmeat.net/projects/mondorescue/).
Check which one best suits your needs.