Mondoarchive via NFS

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi

I am using mondo on my Linux's boxes (red hat 7.1).
Everything works fine with the tape archiving mode but when I am trying to archive using NFS mode I have few problems for restoring my system.

I made the backup on a HP-UX server via NFS, using the command "mondoarchive -On 10.48.161.231:/mondo/linux01 -E /mondo". The iso files have been created on the remote server and the floppies as well. Then I tried to restore the system, booting on the floppy is ok, but a problem occured when I ran ISO under expert mode. I had the following error message in the log :

mount 10.48.161.231:/mondo/linux01 -t nfs -o ro /mnt/isodir
mount : RPC : unable to send ; errno=Network is unreachable

I guess there is something wrong with the network, and there is probably something to configure (eth0 ??) before running ISO in order to have the network up. I can't find any information about this problem and I would appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance,
Fr??d??ric

[Eric Ladner]

I think you are right.

You have to have eth0 properly configured and the NFS services running before you can NFS mount something on a remote system.

First things to try would be can you ping the system in question, then try a "showmount -e ". You might not be able to do the showmount, though, depending on the number of tools availible on the boot floppy, or whatever environment you're in at the moment.

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

In fact I don't known how to configure the network with the restricted tools given by mondorestore.
I had no device file eth0 and ifconfig didn't work.

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Fr??d??ric

[Bill Thorsteinson]

Try to locate some rescue diskette images. You should be able to boot and configure your a minimal network from a two diskette set. Then you could try the mondo restore.

Check Linuxdoc.org or www.debian.org for more information.

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

Now the restore is working fine.
After booting on the floopy, and before begining mondo-restore, we need to configure the network :
ifconfig eth0
/sbin/start_nfs

then ISO to restore from nfs.

Fr??d??ric