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

Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) 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,
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.

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,...)  :-)

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

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), 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
Intel based computer systems only.

0.7.6, November 24, 2003