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mkCDrec makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.

After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command

/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

Besides recovering the exact system to the same hardware (except for a new disk perhaps) there is the possibility to make a clone of just one disk. The command

/etc/recovery/clone-dsk.sh

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).

A thrid script,

/etc/recovery/restore-fs.sh

will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted.

Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels are supported, and if size of the kernel is not too big a boot floppy can be made, otherwise a 2.88 Mb boot floppy will be emulated on CD-ROM.

MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the user's choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...)

But there is more: msdos, fat, vfat and ntfs mounted partitions are recognized and are saved as compressed dumps (on CD, tape, etc.) The user has the possibility to encrypt all backups with openssl if desired (see the Config.sh configuration file for more information).

To restore your system completely just boot from the first CD-ROM made by mkCDrec and type

/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

to restore everything from CD. Automatic Disaster Recovery and One Button Disaster Recovery are supported by mkCDrec too.

With the clone-dsk.sh script one can restore selective a disk or partitions to another free disk.

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), S-ATA and SCSI disks, hardware RAID based disks (e.g. Compaq SMART2 Disk Array), LVM and software RAID. With an El-Torito CD-ROM you can boot from an IDE or SCSI based CD-ROM drive on IA32/64, powermac, Sparc and x86_64 GNU/Linux based computer systems.

The mkCDrec Utilities , which can make of a mkCDrec CD an added value rescue CD-ROM , are optional. See the utilities page to learn more about those tools. However, the mkCDrec Utilities have no impact on any disaster recovery or cloning functionality. MkCDrec detects the presence of the utilities automatically and will link the proper tools.

Goals & Philosophy

• mkCDrec Project Philosophy:
  

  Combine a bootable rescue CD-ROM with disaster recovery scripts and optional utilities. How do we get there? With a simple command called:

  make

• mkCDrec is an Open Source software development project.
  By releasing mkCDrec under the GPL, IT3 Consultants is supporting the development of Open Source software.
• mkCDrec main goal is to recover from a broken system as quickly as possible.
  Read the "introduction" to have a more in-depth knowledge on goals and prerequisites. For the impatient among us, check out the "Installation and getting started" document too.

• Download the mkCDrec Main Recovery Set:

  From http://mkcdrec.ota.be/

  mkCDrec_v0.9.8 RPM versions	[3067 Kb] released on 21 November 2007 [md5sum=04ab7b7e6bd5b224acc3552311372442] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.7 RPM versions	[2591 Kb] released on 19 June 2007 [md5sum=f59a1f98abae6759181a57006d805e11] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.6 RPM versions	[2145 Kb] released on 16 January 2007 [md5sum=9cc999ba19747ea578a09f2c95a7bd00] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.5 RPM versions	[2921 Kb] released on 12 November 2006 [md5sum=ca703f44e86ba159013e48686a8f8bcb] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.4 RPM versions	[2914 Kb] released on 12 September 2006 [md5sum=3abc2488e4bc4440deab3f4fdc62ac8a] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.3 RPM versions	[2992 Kb] released on 25 June 2006 [md5sum=4bf59bdf6168ac44812b731129757ed2] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.2 RPM versions	[2990 Kb] released on 8 May 2006 [md5sum=7473e799eb05e353bf49da51a7266abf] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9.1 RPM versions	[2969 Kb] released on 28 Mar 2006 [md5sum=1c10afad8ed5648622a66d1c9688b406] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.9 RPM versions	[2963 Kb] released on 11 Feb. 2006 [md5sum=a6383ccbbc8040a3f63f6baa53a0904f] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.9 RPM versions	[2608 Kb] released on 22 November 2005 [md5sum=0cbe2efbd083ce9745c5d5c5cea1c7c2] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.8 RPM versions	[2411 Kb] released on 11 September 2005 [md5sum=9a4fa0e18b441cb10c24687da615de8f] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.7 RPM versions	[2520 Kb] released on 29 May 2005 [md5sum=2dc125c103a546cde4213a67d269c7f5] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.6 RPM versions	[2523 Kb] released on 28 March 2005 [md5sum=1b2af2dbc8b7c3b6a5c5703aecb3e73f] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.5 RPM versions	[2534 Kb] released on 26 January 2005 [md5sum=1d58ae8aaa9302c1a104f10b5f7e6756] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64,x86_64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.4 RPM versions	[2498 Kb] released on 8 January 2005 [md5sum=0589bfbfc439ff10f6bfbdfb69dfe3d1] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.3 RPM versions	[2472 Kb] released on 20 November 2004 [md5sum=d2f4cc871b9b32ce2205da4df4a2ca3d] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.2 RPM versions	[2445 Kb] released on 9 September 2004 [md5sum=99969404c86ab65283194af741ea1070] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.1 RPM versions	[2434 Kb] released on 3 August 2004 [md5sum=38876ca640ef5a847e648746fa6e4aac] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64)
  mkCDrec_v0.8.0 RPM versions	[2432 Kb] released on 2 July 2004 [md5sum=6dd5383d24b6a60fa8afe4675168e866] RPMs are downloadable from Sourceforge.net (ia32/ia64)
  mkCDrec_v0.7.9 RPM version	[1973 Kb] released on 4 May 2004 [md5sum=5227cb9325dcd486890aee3db655e7d7] [1256 Kb] [md5sum=a15e35e9edebcb80556a3159fda96003]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.8 RPM version	[1987 Kb] released on 3 March 2004 [md5sum=948c553ef9cd4cc254705df974721d33] [1268 Kb] [md5sum=b96b35d7275c4b6790694ac866b87192]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.7 RPM version	[2018 Kb] released on 27 January 2004 [md5sum=2d0a553b8346cc1531f08130b9f54553] [1286 Kb] [md5sum=ddcf4da285141313250f6fc7506ce379]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.6 RPM version	[1992 Kb] released on 25 November 2003 [md5sum=ca74adadf4741d7d930429853c420971] [1265 Kb] [md5sum=1ccad0fb4b6b091a149ebb81fc5d335f]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.5 RPM version	[1984 Kb] released on 26 October 2003 [md5sum=0f5b4b92cdd32e5736c9035a411f2a08] [1257 Kb] [md5sum=caaa7c2cc7ef8744bb9a380e34aadba6]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.4 RPM version	[1914 Kb] released on 7 September 2003 [md5sum=f5a44ec7d7784aad57df88c33a1103b8] [1126 Kb] [md5sum=b7d3ed63bedc7b0172179985f959a477]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.3 RPM version	[1909 Kb] released on 15 July 2003 [md5sum=3b24ed6c6e9bef8a0039383082e56861] [1120 Kb] [md5sum=d5f417db3319d5820b52b5fb564423f0]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.2 RPM version	[1908 Kb] released on 7 May 2003 [md5sum=f3d186c90ea69f596d189f1907307bab] [1094 Kb] [md5sum=b3e918a7652a3a860db47c1cd9bb2f3c]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.1 RPM version	[2207 Kb] released on 4 March 2003 [md5sum=d7454ad7057aa2bb61ca1c065d3e0b30] [1124 Kb] [md5sum=1e5143d05b327f7d3cce15f9e3e44ad2]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.0 RPM version	[2172 Kb] released on 20 January 2003 [md5sum=392a807132831b4de3e9d94f36638948] [1169 Kb] [md5sum=2f9dad07abe0f45918943d65cd8f9ba9]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.9 RPM version	[2158 Kb] released on 12 January 2003 [md5sum=aeb12a106ca2d55a77c435910a91c2d3] [1165 Kb] [md5sum=a7c04fc53b85095604079ee652d67acf]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.8	[2141 Kb] released on 9 December 2002 [md5sum=d53e7566ae22b462df670f4db74dbdf7]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.7	2343 Kb] released on 10 October 2002 [md5sum=3f9d20bc0006334aea9a96e3abaf0f57]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.6	[2290 Kb] released on 20 August 2002 [md5sum=2dcbe16a7a06309263b8a8f5bac64da7]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.5	[2286 Kb] released on 1 July 2002 [md5sum=74e268aae39102b7bbbc1cafbf34bcd2]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.4	[2260 Kb] released on 2 June 2002 [md5sum=b2b5168ee37de7ccd51d9947fa09bd83]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.3	[2264 Kb] released on 8 May 2002 [md5sum=8f68816b028e72e9ca27a60fb5141e20]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.2	2257 Kb] released on 27 April 2002 [md5sum=d8bbf2341725a480f717d5d1ca5be993]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.1	[2240 Kb] released on 16 March 2002 [md5sum=f2ba36af472c693047f59366e5ee2672]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.0	[2238 Kb] released on 21 February 2002 [md5sum=402bc6738b2b20906e50d9b82cca9a54]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.9	[2208 Kb] released on 2 January 2002 [md5sum=1128386ddc9f43855e929ac6db826436]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.8	[2187 Kb] released on 12 December 2001 [md5sum=a2a8ff783b619941b516d6fa76ec71fb]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.7	[2173 Kb] released on 22 November 2001 [md5sum=87b6598dace83a8800c59261569d8ae9]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.6	[1891 Kb] release on 14 October 2001 [md5sum=70866652e626fa3c30a4889848190094]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.5	[2029 Kb] released on 12 September 2001 [md5sum=f6da8fcb35e4ccfc2cca325c6b4efd5e]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.4	[1874 Kb] released on 6 August 2001 [md5sum=bf86ecaa05b31960fe44cea07f9862b6]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.3	[1827 Kb] released on 23 June 2001 [md5sum=59aa676eced0a903a7e913e846c61e74]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.2	[1827 Kb] released on 18 June 2001 [md5sum=045113b8b3518ddce48e6829b6a21706]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.1	[1821 Kb] released on 29 May 2001 [md5sum=a80a6ef8fa80f06f4dfeace032fd697e]
  mkCDrec_v0.5	[1758 Kb] released on 6 May 2001 [md5sum=8bef61f450d98d892dbc1a38c656c042]
  mkCDrec_v0.4.9	[1721 Kb] released on 4 April 2001
  mkCDrec_v0.4.8	[1655 Kb] released on 25 March 2001
  mkCDrec_v0.4.7	[1487 Kb] released on 19 February 2001 (beta release)
  mkCdrec_v0.4.6	[1413 Kb] released on 5 February 2001
  mkCDrec_v0.4.5	[1465 Kb] released on 31 January 2001 (beta release)
  mkCDrec_v0.4.1	[1482 Kb] released on 31 December 2000
  mkCDrec_v0.4	[1302 Kb] released on 17 December 2000
  mkCDrec_v0.3.1	[1497 Kb] released on 1 December 2000
  mkCDrec_v0.3	[1255 Kb] released on 22 November 2000 (initial release)

  From http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25327

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  Download the mkCDrec Utilities (optional)

  The version number of the utilities is unrelated to the mkCDrec version number (mostly static executables).

  To install the utilities do the following:

  # cd mkcdrec; tar zxvf mkCDrec_v0.7.5_utils.tar.gz # ls -l utilities

  
  
  

  mkCDrec_v0.7.9_utils.tar.gz	[2445 Kb] released on 4 May 2004 [md5sum=3294f58cbc69532f4377224daa544174]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.5_utils.tar.gz	[2622 Kb] released on 26 October 2003 [md5sum=b0fc757d4f6f3d2c8086d21af4297118]
  mkCDrec_v0.7.1_utils.tar.gz	[1642 Kb] released on 3 March 2003 [md5sum=6a433f429f42235cbc5f652d9b38af30]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.7_utils.tar.gz	[1259 Kb] released on 27 April 2002 [md5sum=9bbb2b5c5be63ba0cd98342467d924a6]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.2_utils.tar.gz	[1141 Kb] released on 27 April 2002 [md5sum=7eec75164e5ad30905b332977ca3efd8]
  mkCDrec_v0.6.0_utils.tar.gz	[1141 Kb] released on 21 February 2002 [md5sum=4904a753bb7820d0c4e6ae905e8e9d2f]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.7_utils.tar.gz	[1186 Kb] released on 22 November 2001 [md5sum=a95b0f2f21ecb779e7c9f0bcd41a467d]
  mkCDrec_v0.5.1_utils.tar.gz	[1255 Kb] released on 29 May 2001 [md5sum=de397cc2d7087baef39b59ff5aff0623]
  mkCDrec_v0.4.1_utils.tar.gz	[ 709 Kb] released on 31 December 2000