What is Mondo Rescue?
Mondo Rescue is an open source disaster recovery and backup solution designed specifically for Linux systems. It provides a simple way to fully or partially backup a Linux installation, as well as migrate or clone installed systems to either physical or virtual machines.
Some key features of Mondo Rescue include:
- Full or selective backup of Linux partitions, including system files, data, and configured software
- Backup to local or remote media like tapes, ISO images, local disks, SMB shares
- Bare metal restore to identical or dissimilar hardware using mindi
- Migrate or clone Linux installations to physical machines, virtual machines (KVM, Xen, VMware) or to cloud services
- Reliable backup verification and validation
- Scheduled backups
- Web based administrative interface
Mondo Rescue handles the underlying complexity of Linux backup and disaster recovery, providing reliability, flexibility and ease of use in an intuitive solution. Its broad format support and hardware compatibility makes Mondo a versatile data protection tool for sysadmins to safeguard Linux systems and data.
Clonezilla, Macrium Reflect, Duplicati, Rescuezilla, TimeShift, Redo Rescue, SystemRescue, MiniTool ShadowMaker, Partimage, RIPLinuX, ALT Linux, Finnix are some alternatives to Mondo Rescue.