Mondorestore fails restoring files from an usb HD

I have recently had a similar experience.
There is a bug in the version of mondorestore that is installed in the ubuntu package.
The ubuntu package is also rather old as the latest stable release is 2.2.4 and the ubuntu package is 2.2.2.
If you download and install the 2.2.4 release from http://www.mondorescue.org/downloads.shtml you should be able to restore your data.

To the ubuntu package maintainers: please can you update the ubuntu package to version 2.2.4?

Best Regards,
Bill

ok, just checked and the current stable version of mondorescue is included in Ubuntu Hardy packaged with version number 2.24-2 http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/utils/mondo

Best Regards,
Bill

Bill, thanks to reply. I restored my data with sysrescuecd. Hope they will fix this soon in Ubuntu.

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

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Pedro,
I have personally submitted multiple error logs in the past and never heard anything back. I just had a case in which mondorestore ate my system drive. It restored to 1% and then died with the fatal error message "MOMMY!" rendering my entire system unusable.

Both log files can be found as an attachment below. Is this everything you need? Can I be of any further assistance?

I have no idea how long it will take the dev gang to diagnose and fix it and to publish RPMs for my latest-n-gratest Suse 11.1 x86_64 and I would really like to get my image back.

I was going to write a Perl script to mount the ISO, decompress the .bz2 images and see if I could figure out how to mate the files listed in all.tar.gz to the images. Bunzip2 tells me:
brianp@godzilla:/tmp$ bunzip2 0.afio.bz2
bunzip2: 0.afio.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.

How can I decompress mondo's .bz2 files? Do I have any hope of reassembling the original image or am I just smoking rope? Last night, I tried mondo-2.2.6-2.3.x86_64.rpm on a victim system with a quick-n-dirty, minimal Suse 11.1 and got the same 1% "MOMMY!" fatal error. All of the prerequisites (afio, newt, etc.) were installed with stock, YAST modules.

Can you point me to a well behaved mondo which will work on Suse 11.1/64 bit running on an Intel core2 quad q9550 running on an Asus p5q3 with an intel p45/ich10r chipset? The latest version, mondo-2.2.8, appears only in the Asian releases and in SLES 10 on http://mondorescue.org -> download. I can't read Chinese. :-)

The Suse version only goes to 11.0. and is version 2.0.6. Will using an ancient version of mondo built for an old version of Suse be a Quixotic exercise without hope of success?

Grasping at straws,

    BrianP

Daniel,
 I don't know if this is still an issue in Ubuntu 8.10. As final, every day user I simple changed my backup software (rsync...).
I suggest to investigate this bug deeply further, submitting it to upstream or something else.

In my opinion even a far possibility of unusable restore images worth it.

My2c.