Andree's Debian & General Musings

Preliminary Debian packages for Mondo Rescue 2.2.1 are available at the usual place: http://people.debian.org/~andree/packages/. (r1021 is the SVN revision of the actual 2.2.1 release.)

The new version comes with quite an impressive list of fixes and enhancements as can be seen on the Mondo Rescue website. The new '-G' option which allows for using gzip as the compressor is my personal favourite as it really speeds things up! Also, I've finally gotten around to fixing #222065 and there is no more unsolicited creation of directories in /var/cache anymore (neither submitted upstream yet).

Unfortunately, there are a few issues:

• Links in directories that actually are links themselves are not resolved correctly (fixed in the Debian package.).
• nuke restore from tape makes mondorestore crash (at least on amd64). The workaround is to use automatic or interactive mode.
• Windows 2000 does not boot after a restore (at least on amd64). The data is restored but there is something wrong with how fdisk creates the partition (I believe). This actually also happens with 2.2.0 as well, so it is not a regression. I have to look into this more. The workaround is to use gparted (or similar) and resize the windows partition/filesystem by a few MB.
  
• petris doesn't start when restoring (again at least on amd64). Surely the most minor issue I noticed so far...
  

Anyway, apart from the above, things seem to be ok. Give it a try if you like! If you do find more issues, let us know via the mailing list and - even better - send a patch. ;-)

Other than that, (belated) Happy New Year to everyone! :-)