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• Mephisto 1.3 Released!

  ________________________ What is Mephisto Backup? This program can do simple backups and syncs over a network or locally.It uses tar and rsync in the background. Mephisto Backup was made with the Java programming language. The key feature of this program is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC. Features: 1. Backup your operating system to a Live CD. 2. Restore your OS from the Mephisto Live CD. The live CD is used by Mephisto Backup to Restore your system only. 3. Displays the size of your backup ISO and TAR file after each backup job is ran. 4. Blank DVD-RWs. 5. Sync between locations and save backup configurations. 6. Burn the backup image to the live cd within the program. 7. Backup Schedules. Sourceforge Project URL: Here Google Code URL: Here ________________________ [NEWS] 3/23/2009 Mephisto Backup v1.3 released. ________________________ 3/16/2009 Mephisto Backup v1.3 Beta released. Testing ISO located here. The ISO is used to restore your system. ________________________ 2/27/2009. Mephisto Backup v1.3 is in development. Features: 1. Program will ask you what your current filesystem type is. I currently have ext3 or ext2 listed. 2. Grammar fixes. 4. Added support for Arch Linux. 5. More to come I hope. ________________________ Why the re-imaging section of the program will *NOT* work for you: 1. Your using LVM. 2. Your using UUID instead of the traditional naming scheme: /dev/sdX (Simply modify /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to solve this problem.) 3. The root partition is not /dev/sda1. 4. Your using a different filesystem than ext2 or ext3. (Code can be changed in 1 second to support the rest.) 5. Your not using Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or basically an operating system that uses something else besides mkinitcpio, mkinitrd, or mkinitramfs to generate a kernel initrd image. ________________________ ATTENTION DEBIAN USERS ! (NOT UBUNTU!) If your root partition is not /dev/sda1, you will have some issues. I noticed that on some boxes my root device will be /dev/hdd1 or /dev/hda1. You will be able to restore your system from the restore disc. However, you will have a problem when your system boots because device may not be found. Here is the work around: 1) Restore your system as normal. 2) Debian will ask you for your root password to enter single user mode because it can not find the root device. 3) Change /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to the right value. 4) Reboot. ________________________ [About the Live CD] The Live CD is a modified Gentoo minimal install disc. When the disc is finished booting, the Mephisto Backup restore process will begin automatically. ________________________ [RELEASES] Mephisto Backup 1.0 links: 1. Download (If you already have Sun Java installed) How to run: untar, cd into the folder, cd dist, java -jar *.jar. 2. Download with Java (If you do not have Java installed, 33.9MB) How to run: unzip, cd into the folder, ./mephistobackup ________________________ Mephisto Backup 1.1 links: 3. Download 1.1 ! (You must have Java installed for this link) How to run: cd into the folder, cd dist, java -jar *.jar. 4. Download 1.1 ! (Java included, 33.9MB) How to run: unzip, cd into the folder, ./mephistobackup ________________________ Mephisto Backup 1.2 links: 5. Mephisto 1.2 (Java Included, 33.9MB) How to run: unzip, cd into the folder, ./mephistobackup 6. Download 1.2 (You must have Java installed for this link) How to run: cd into the folder, cd dist, java -jar *.jar. ________________________ Mephisto Backup 1.3 links: 7.Mephisto 1.3 (Java Included, 33.9MB) How to run: unzip, cd into the folder, ./mephistobackup 8. Download 1.3 (You must have Java installed for this link) How to run: cd into the folder, cd dist, java -jar *.jar. ________________________ [GUIDES] How do I re-image a machine with Mephisto 1.2 and up? 1) Create your backup configuration with option 2 from the main menu. 2) Load your configuration with option 1 from the main menu. 3) When backup is complete, run option 10 from the main menu. 4) Burn the iso to a disc. 5) Reboot and it should work. ________________________ How do I re-image a machine manually? (Mephisto Backup 1.2 does everything for you below. ) 1. Add your backup file to a live cd using isomaster. (Mephisto Backup 1.1 does this for you) 2. Boot the live cd. 3. Format your partitions. 4. mount and extract the backup file. 5. mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc chroot /mnt 6. Use mkinitrd to generate a fresh initrd image 7. grub-install /dev/sda

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• Mephiso Backup 1.2 releases

  Mephisto 1.2 Features: 1. Backup Schedules. 2. Restore your OS from the Mephisto Live CD. 3. Displays the size of your backup ISO and TAR file after each backup job is ran. 4. Bug fixes ans improvements. 5. Restore CD works good with RedHat and Debian based systems. 6. Blank DVD-RWs.

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• Mephisto: 1.1

  A simple backup program written in Java that wraps around TAR. Mephisto Backup v1.1 has been released. This program can do simple backups and syncs over a network or locally.; it uses tar and rsync in the background. The key feature of this program is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC. http://rusher.webhop.org/wordpress/?page_id=210 http://rusher.webhop.org/mephistobackup.html http://code.google.com/p/mephistobackup/

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