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Mondo Rescue

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Mondo Rescue is a disaster recovery solution for backing up and restoring systems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · mondorescue.org
Intended users
A project maintainer comment describes the software as aimed at experienced system administrators who test disaster recovery solutions before production.Read 11 Oct 2026 · trac.mondorescue.org
License
Mondo Rescue is described as free disaster recovery software under the GNU General Public License.Read 11 Oct 2026 · en.wikipedia.org
Founded
2000Read 28 Sep 2026 · mondorescue.org
Backup and restore options
The project’s documentation describes backup image creation and fully automated, interactive, compare-mode, and online restore options.Read 11 Oct 2026 · landley.net
Backup media
The project describes backups to tape, CD-R/RW, NFS, and hard disk partitions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · mondorescue.org
Boot recovery
MondoRescue uses Mindi to create the bootable recovery environment for accessing recovery images.Read 11 Oct 2026 · kernel.org
Disaster recovery
A project developer describes Mondo as aimed at experienced system administrators who test disaster recovery solutions before production use.Read 11 Oct 2026 · trac.mondorescue.org
Distribution support
The project paper describes MondoRescue as distribution-neutral and names Mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Slackware.Read 11 Oct 2026 · kernel.org
Filesystem support
The project paper lists ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, LVM, and software and hardware RAID support.Read 11 Oct 2026 · kernel.org
Interface
The project paper says the interface can be command-line based or a semi-graphical interface based on newt.Read 11 Oct 2026 · kernel.org
Open format
A project developer says Mondo uses an open format that allows manual operation of the tool.Read 11 Oct 2026 · trac.mondorescue.org
Operating systems
The listed operating systems are Linux and FreeBSD.Read 11 Oct 2026 · en.wikipedia.org
Project hosting
The MondoRescue project is hosted by the HPE Customer Innovation Center on a Mageia system.Read 11 Oct 2026 · trac.mondorescue.org
Recovery media
Mindi Linux provides a bootable emergency restore CD or floppy set used by Mondo at boot time.Read 11 Oct 2026 · help.ubuntu.com
Restore from network
The restore manual documents using an NFS mount as restore media.Read 11 Oct 2026 · linux.die.net
Restore from USB
The restore manual documents using a generic USB device as restore media.Read 11 Oct 2026 · linux.die.net
Restore modes
The project paper lists fully automated, interactive, comparison, and online restore options.Read 11 Oct 2026 · kernel.org
Support channel
A project ticket identifies Bruno Cornec as the owner and lists the project’s Trac ticketing system.Read 11 Oct 2026 · trac.mondorescue.org

Plans and prices

Mondo Rescue Free Open-source disaster recovery and cloning software · GPL Read 11 Oct 2026 · mondorescue.org

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