[SGVLUG]Mondo, was: How to split a "big backup" [that uses tar]

[Marsden MacRae]

Dustin wrote:
> 
> Yeah.  Try Mondo backup, something I've been tempted to do a "cool tools"  
> talk about.  It takes a while to run, but it will archive everything you
> point it at (with afio, not tar, so that an error doesn't make the whole
> archive unusable), split into media-sized chunks.  I have it burn to a
> series of CDs or DVDs, but I think it can write the archives to disk as 
> well.
> 
> Here is the unusual thing about Mondo archive--the archive discs are 
> bootable, so they work properly if you've screwed up so badly the system 
> is unbootable.


this sounds highly interesting to our little operation, especially since 
their page mentions they have Debian.

> Oh, well, if the width of the tie is more important than data integrity,
> maybe Mondo won't help.  I had to write a tiny little shell script to feed
> it the command-line options to make it do exactly what I wanted.
> 
> Dustin


um, <diffident foot shuffling> is it tacky to ask if I can borrow your 
script?

Marsden