[ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yeah - this sounds good.  Unfortunately, each machine would have to be "out
of action" to use the floppy.  Then again, that may be the only reliable way
to get a good backup, i.e., with the OS "asleep."  Have you looked into
something like Knox Software's Arkeia?

I was going to try to suggest an architectural remedy.  Recoverability of
individual client machines on a Windows network can be improved by taking
more of a "thin client" approach, taking as much individuality as possible
out of the machines' own disk drives.  That way, you recover machines not by
restoring from a backup but by performing an unattended custom OS install
and config.  All data and app storage would typically reside on one or more
hardened servers.  However, I know from experience that it is often quite
challenging to transition a client system environment to something like that
when client machines and their users have pretty much been allowed to "run
wild."  

- Jeff



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kinney [mailto:jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:03 AM
> To: Patrick
> Cc: Jeff Hubbs; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?
> 
> 
> Use a disk like Tom's root/boot. Modify to include the 
> networking card and
> networking stuff you need. (Or the LinuxCare CD) Pipe a dd to a tar
> dump over the network to your storage server of the machine 
> after you boot
> with the floppy. If the box needs a restore, reverse the 
> process. Untar
> from the network server, pipe to dd to the hard drive.
> 
> Somewhere I saw an article about a group that was using a 
> similar process.
> I don't remeber if it was slashdot or Linux Journal. 
> 
> JimK 
> 
> 
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