Merry Christmas, MondoRescue 3.2.0 is out !

My previous post was to announce I wanted to publish that long overdue 3.2.0 version of MondoRescue beofre Christmas, so here we are !

I finally found the issue I had restoring RHEL7 with 3.2.0. This was due to a cumul of problems:

• XFS labelling was broken. I fixed it by calling appropriately xfs_admin in label-partitions-as-necessary
• RHEL7 uses a UUID for / in the grub2 configuration, which is not mentioned in /etc/fstab; so mindi wasn’t recreating that UUID correctly. So now mindi will store in the mountlist.txt the UUID of each partition, if no other LABEL or UUID was explicitely given in /etc/fstab in order to be able to use it at restore time, and label-partitions-as-necessary was also updated to take that in account

And I was with these modifications able to restore fully automatically a RHEL7 VM. So as I had alrady a working RHEL6 and Fedora 20 env, and as no big regression is expected on other supported distros (Mageia, SLES, OpenSuSE, Debian, Ubuntu mainly) I thought it was time to deliver it officially and give you a toy to play with for Christmas ! Am I not a nice guy 😉 ?

A lot as changed with regards to 3.0.4. If you want to have all the details, look at the Changelogs available in the trac announce, or read my previous posts about the 3.2 branch development, which started back in October 2013 (or even before in fact).

Is it the end of the 3.0 branch ? No. As I announced it earlier already, I want to at least publish a 3.0.5 with most mindi modifications backported in it (SVN already has such a branch in fact) in order for those of you who don’t like major updates, to stay with a more stable branch for some months, before jumping into 3.2.x. Because 3.2.x is the future, and most of my development time will happen here.

Hopefully that 3.0.5 branch will also work fine with systemd and /usr only based distros as the modifications to support that have all been done in mindi.

As for the 3.2.x branch, please report your findings ! I know I’m far from answering all mails, or answer all bug reports, but I do rad all of these, and as time permit, I try to make the code evolve (typically adding more perl functions) to have a more flexible way of incorporating your requests. Slower, but I have an installed base to maintain, I’m not like Fedora, which will always be followed, I need to keep my sysadmin as happy as possible with the state of the tool, while maintaing as much compatibility as I can with the previous versions.

But all that won’t happen before early January, as I’ll pass time with my kids and my wife to celebrate Christmas, an enjoy being together, which is now not as often as the previous years (yes kids grow up and move sometimes far from home :-), and that’s good !)

As I write packages are still being delivered to the master ftp server. Try it after the 25th !

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Tags: Christmas, Fedora, Mondorescue, Open Source, RHEL, UUID